A Journey into Creative Music
Therapy Clive
Robbins
ISBN 1-891278-31-2, $34
This
compelling story of the author's life in music therapy
is told with honesty, compassion, and insight
and serves equally as a personal history and the history
of creative music therapy. The story begins in Clive's
childhood as he describes the role of music in his life
in the family bakery in which he was raised. We move
through his adolescent years and his time in the British
Royal Air Force during World War II and on to his life
at Sunfield Children's Home where his work with Paul
Nordoff began. The narrative details their early discoveries,
the inception of their creative approach, their subsequent
travels throughout Europe, and the establishment of their
work in the Philadelphia area. The book continues with
Clive's teamwork with his wife Carol in Australia, their
groundbreaking work with the hearing-impaired, and their
founding of the Nordoff-Robbins Center at New York University.
The book concludes with an examination of the worldwide
dissemination of this work and its intertwined role in
the global development of music therapy. 2005 (ISBN 1-891278-31-2),
142 pages, $34.