Main Issue, Vol. 3, No. 1.

Editorial

Brynjulf Stige:

Bridged Genres

"Blurred Genres" is the first essay in Clifford Geertz's (1983) well-known book Local Knowledge. In this essay the renowned anthropologist reflects upon two observations he had...

Essay

Mercédès Pavlicevic:

Risk, Indemnity and Social Responsibility in Music Therapy Training

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has become associated with much of the African continent, and the South African media is saturated with...

Theoretical Paper

Gro Hallan Tønsberg & Tonhild Strand Hauge:

The Musical Nature of Human Interaction

Experience from clinical work with congenitally deaf/blind children has generated questions about the qualities being exchanged in basic togetherness independent of sensory modalities. How is this basic togetherness created between congenital deaf/blind children and their seeing-hearing partners? Is it possible to talk about universal qualities ...

Clinical Paper

Marcia Cirigliano:

The Song as an Anchor

Music therapists, regardless their cultural background or theoretical approaches are also human beings. As such, they have limits, most of them unconscious...

Report

Andrea Frisch Hara:

The NYC (New York City) Music Therapy Relief Project

"Be careful what you ask for," I thought so many times after September 11th, 2001 and while directing the NYC Music Therapy Relief Project. On 9.11.01, I knew I wanted to help, to offer my expertise and to be able to share the power of music ...

Report

Robert E. Krout:

A Kiwi Odyssey: Music Therapy University Training in New Zealand Takes Flight

This article looks at the new postgraduate music therapy programme at Massey University in New Zealand, and at how it has developed as this country's first full-time tertiary course in music therapy...

International Archives

Brynjulf Stige:

Perspectives on Meaning in Music Therapy

Discussion of meaning in music therapy is quite complex. Such a discussion must embrace the meaning of music, of body language and of verbal language, the relationship between each of these in their own context, and the meaning of meaning in therapy...