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Exploring music therapists' engagement in personal musicking
Title
Exploring music therapists' engagement in personal musicking
Year Issued
2024
Abstract
This study explores music therapists’ experiences of personal musicking. The research question is: What role does personal musicking play in the music therapist’s life? Data was collected using individual, semi-structured interviews with five music therapists in the ...
Show moreThis study explores music therapists’ experiences of personal musicking. The research question is: What role does personal musicking play in the music therapist’s life? Data was collected using individual, semi-structured interviews with five music therapists in the United States. Interviews were transcribed and coded for themes using reflexive thematic analysis. Seven themes emerged from the participant transcripts, which were (1) facets of positive musical relationship; (2) personal and professional connections; (3) ways of musicking; (4) music aspirations; (5) hindrances to musical relationship; (6) emotions; and (7) barriers to musicking. Within each theme, three to six subthemes were also identified, totaling 30 subthemes. Participants described a variety of music experiences which contribute to a positive musical relationship though many internal and external factors inhibited their actual ability to engage in musicking as much as they would like or desire. Participants compared their experiences of musicking in clinical spaces with that of their personal musicking, and the boundaries drawn between clinical and personal music were unique to each participant. Implications for the music therapy profession include: considerations of thinking styles and values around different types of musicking; a call for curricula adaptation in music therapy training to encourage musical identity formation via many ways of musicking; and encouragement for practicing clinicians to continue exploring their sense of musicianship to maintain ethical practice and recognize the ways that musicking influences their own health and wellness.
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Author
McLean, Sarah
Understanding safety in music therapy
Title
Understanding safety in music therapy
Year Issued
2024
Abstract
Although there is a growing emphasis on trauma-informed care in music therapy clinical practice, research specifically addressing the concept of safety—particularly psychological and physical safety—remains limited. Therefore, this thesis aimed to understand the conc...
Show moreAlthough there is a growing emphasis on trauma-informed care in music therapy clinical practice, research specifically addressing the concept of safety—particularly psychological and physical safety—remains limited. Therefore, this thesis aimed to understand the concept of safety in the field of music therapy and how it informs practice, education, and professional interactions. Given the limited existing research on this topic, a grounded theory methodology was employed to generate a deeper understanding of how safety is conceptualized in the field based on the lived experiences and insights of practitioners. The primary researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with a total of 11 participants. The interviews were recorded and transcribed, and the transcripts were analyzed and coded using ATLAS.ti. The findings proposed the following theory: Within music therapy contexts, safety is a dynamic experience that is constantly negotiated and co-constructed by participants through prioritizing care and well-being in the relationship and conditions for safety, including trust, are present. Interpretations of findings, implications for music therapy practice, and recommendations for future research were included.
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Author
Hales, Grant
2023-3-28- Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Title
2023-3-28- Symphonic Wind Ensemble
2023-5-2-Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Title
2023-5-2-Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Ableism and colonialism in international music therapy service-learning settings
Title
Ableism and colonialism in international music therapy service-learning settings
Abstract
Music therapy settings are often marked by multiple power hierarchies, in which music therapists hold privileged identities in areas such as race, disability, language, and class in relation to clients who may carry multiple oppressed identities. In international ser...
Show moreMusic therapy settings are often marked by multiple power hierarchies, in which music therapists hold privileged identities in areas such as race, disability, language, and class in relation to clients who may carry multiple oppressed identities. In international service-learning settings, these dualities can be even more pronounced. As international service-learning projects market themselves to young music therapists and students, they emphasize these projects’ ability to accelerate music therapists’ advancement in the profession. However, analysis of visual and written discourse can reveal subtler and more insidious consequences of such projects, particularly in the ways they uphold colonial and ableist paradigms. In this paper, I will outline some foundational understandings regarding Indigenous studies, Disability studies, “voluntourism,” and the relevance of representation. I will then analyze publicly available photos and text from four international music therapy service-learning projects, using Actor-Network Theory to identify colonial and ableist themes. The analyses will demonstrate that these experiences align and prepare young music therapists for broader music therapy practice mainly by reinforcing music therapy’s deeply colonial and ableist foundations. Music therapy identity in these images is white, settler, nondisabled, and aligned with Western music and culture; client identity is Indigenous, colonized, Disabled, and represented without markers of local cultural resources. Beyond identity, these images reveal relational patterns that align with colonial and ableist tropes. As represented in these images and texts, music therapists purportedly give, help, act, distribute, teach, and transform, whereas clients receive, wait, accept, assimilate, and “overcome.” The representations are not merely neutral agents that reveal existing dynamics; they also perpetuate problematic notions of music therapy as an assimilative and charitable agent, enacted by active “helpers” upon passive “sufferers.” They both accentuate and perpetuate assumptions of Black and colonized people as needy or deficient, positioning Western music therapists conversely as helpful and sufficient. In analyzing and interpreting these representations, I will approach the following questions: How much does music therapist identity depend on the construction of a needy other? In representing ourselves as helpers, how do music therapists unwittingly create or emphasize deficits in clients?
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Year Issued
2021
Author
Gilman, Vee
Sub-title
A critical discourse analysis
Acme Vocals Publicity Photograph
Title
Acme Vocals Publicity Photograph
Year Created
1990
Abstract
Digitized copy of the Acme Vocals Publicity Photo
Sub-title
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Aebersold, Robert Interview Audio
Title
Aebersold, Robert Interview Audio
Year Created
1991
Abstract
Audio recording of the interview of Robert Aebersold on May 28, 1991.
Sub-title
Slippery Rock University in the Sixties Oral History Collection
Aebersold, Robert Interview Audio
Title
Aebersold, Robert Interview Audio
Year Created
2008
Abstract
Audio recording of the interview of Robert Aebersold conducted on October 21, 2008.
Sub-title
ROCKvoices Oral History Project
Aebersold, Robert Interview Transcript
Title
Aebersold, Robert Interview Transcript
Year Created
1991
Abstract
Transcript of the interview of Robert Aebersold on May 28, 1991.
Sub-title
Slippery Rock University in the Sixties Oral History Collection
Aebersold, Robert Interview Transcript
Title
Aebersold, Robert Interview Transcript
Year Created
2008
Abstract
Transcript of the interview of Robert Aebersold conducted on October 21, 2008.
Sub-title
ROCKvoices Oral History Project
Aebersold, Robert Interview Video Clip
Title
Aebersold, Robert Interview Video Clip
Year Created
2008
Abstract
Video clip from the the interview of Robert Aebersold conducted on October 21, 2008.
Sub-title
ROCKvoices Oral History Project
Aerial Views
Title
Aerial Views
AJ Jamal Publicity Photograph
Title
AJ Jamal Publicity Photograph
Year Created
1995
Abstract
Digitized copy of the A.J. Jamal Publicity Photograph
Sub-title
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Ambrosio, Nora Interview Audio
Title
Ambrosio, Nora Interview Audio
Year Created
2023
Abstract
Audio recording of the interview of Nora Ambrosio conducted on March 31, 2023.
Sub-title
ROCKvoices Oral History Project
Ambrosio, Nora Interview Transcript
Title
Ambrosio, Nora Interview Transcript
Year Created
2023
Abstract
Transcript of the interview of Nora Ambrosio conducted on March 31, 2023.
Sub-title
ROCKvoices Oral History Project
Ambrosio, Nora Interview Video Clip
Title
Ambrosio, Nora Interview Video Clip
Year Created
2023
Abstract
Video clip from the interview of Nora Ambrosio conducted on March 31, 2023.
Sub-title
ROCKvoices Oral History Project
Archives
Title
Archives
Abstract
Digital collections from the Slippery Rock University Archives.
Armstrong, Hazel Interview Audio
Title
Armstrong, Hazel Interview Audio
Year Created
1988
Abstract
Audio recording of the interview of Hazel Armstrong on August 3, 1988.
Sub-title
Slippery Rock University Centennial Oral History Collection
Art Building
Title
Art Building
Sub-title
The Hut
Bailey Library
Title
Bailey Library