Culture-Centered
Music Therapy
Reviews
Table of Contents

Reviews - Click to Read Review
Leslie Bunt in the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Book Reviews Online (March, 2003).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Brief Contents
Preface
Foreword, by Kenneth E. Bruscia
vi
xii
xv
Introduction 1

How Deep Is Culture?
Dialogic and Enactive Facets
Culture-Centered versus Ecological Music Therapy
Method of Writing
How to Read this Book
Notes

1
2
5
7
9
12

Part I: Premises 13

Chapter 1: Why Culture?

15

A Very Brief History of the Concept of Culture
Toward an Integrated Conception of Humankind?
Culture and the Evolution of the Human Species (Phylogeny)
Cultural History
The Relevance of Cultural Psychology for Music Therapy
Culture Defined for Music Therapy
Culture-Centered Music Therapy
Notes

15
19

23

25
33

38
41
44

Chapter 2: Meanings

47

Meaning of Meaning in Music therapy
From Names to Moves in Language Games
Meaning Games
The Narrative Turn
The Aesthetic Dimension
Art and Values
Schizophonia and the Therapy Music Market
These People Just Cannot Sing Together
A Plurality of Polyphonic Practices
Notes

47
50
53
55
57
61
65
68
71
75

Chapter 3: The Power of Musicking

79

Talking about Music
Defining Music
The Origins of Music
Protomusicality
Music and Culture
Plurality of Musics
To Music
The Power of Musicking
Notes

79
81
84
87
92
94
99
103
107
Part II: Practices 111

Chapter 4: Community Music Therapy as Cultural Engagement

113

Introduction
Music Therapy as Cultural Engagement
Music Therapy, Health Promotion, and Cultural Life
A Note on Theory, Goals and Method
-May We Too Play in the Brass Band?
With Longing, Life, and Song!
Go Down, Moses
Some Consequences for Research and Ethics
Postscript: From Micro to Macro
Notes

114
114
115

117
119
122
125
127
129
131

Chapter 5: Ecological Music Therapy and Mediated Learning

135

Introduction
I don’t Like Music
A Transactional and Ecological Perspective
Learning as Social Interaction
Music and Meaning as Social Interaction
The Story of Paul: The Assessment Process
Intervention through Consultation
Video Evaluation as Part of the Consultation Process
A Broader Concept of Music Therapy?
Postscript: The Concept of Ecology
Notes

135
136
137
139
140
141
144
146

149
150
152

Chapter 6: Hypertextuality in Individual Music Psychotherapy

155

Introduction
The Text Analogy in Music Therapy
Texts and Hypertexts
Hypertextuality in Music
Synopsis of a Year in Music Therapy
Talking about Music Therapy
Hypertextuality as a Meta-Metaphor
A Preceding Analogous Case?
Postscript: Hypertext Narratives
Notes

155
156
158
160
162
166
170
173
175
177
Part III: Implications 179

Chapter 7: Redefining Music Therapy

181

But Is It Music Therapy?
Music and Health
Conceptual Levels in Defining Music Therapy
Folk Music Therapy
Music Therapy as Discipline and Profession
Music Therapy as Professional Practice
The Practice of Redefining Music Therapy
Notes

181
185
191
193
196
199
202
204

Chapter 8: A Model of the Music Therapy Process

207

Situated Practice
Shared Components in Music Therapy Practices
Health Musicking
Client and Therapist Learning in Relationship
Roles and Relationships
Rituals and Rationales
Communitas in Context
Reflexivity in Action
Notes

207
209

210
213
216
218
221
225
229

Chapter 9: New Arenas and Agendas

231

Areas and Eras of Music Therapy
Target and Time of Intervention
Local Links
Shared Agenda?
Metaphors to Work By
Postcolonial Beginnings
Ethics of Culturally Informed Empathy
Notes

231
233
236
239
240
243
247
250
Part IV: Investigations 251
Chapter 10: Ethnographically Informed Clinical Research 253

Clinical Research
Ethnography
Ethnographic Research Techniques
The Researcher in the Field
Thick Description
The Representation Crisis
Writing as Dialogic Aspect Seeing
Interacting Voices
Notes

253
256
259
262
266
268
270
274
274

Chapter 11: Participatory Action Research

277

Research and Social Change
Pioneers of Action Research
The Legacy of Critical Theory
Contemporary Trends in Action Research
Music Therapy: A Case of Fiddling while the World Burns?
The Process of Doing Participatory Action Research
The Problem of Participation
Notes

277
279
282
286
288

290

293
296

Chapter 12: Toward a Third Culture of Music Therapy Research?

297

The Two Cultures
Science and Success
The Hermeneutic Challenge
Peaceful Coexistence?
Research and Reflexivity
A Third Culture?
Notes

297
300
302
303
308
311
313

Epilogue

315

Drapetomania and other Peculiarities
Cultural Sensitivity
Notes

315
319
322
Glossary
References
Author Index
325
339
357