Main Issue, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Editorial

Carolyn Kenny:

The Doors of Consciousness and Perception: How Languages Play Special Songs

In 1998 I interviewed 30 Haida people in my own community, asking questions about the role of the arts in the revitalization of our indigenous society. The Native Elders would not or could not distinguish language from the arts...

Theoretical Paper

André Brandalise:

Music Therapy: The Use of Music for Healing

I would like to open this article with a thought about health, understanding it as a “way of being” and not just a state of what we have. Health is what we are...

Theoretical Paper

Joanne Loewy:

Integrating Music, Language and the Voice in Music Therapy

The most personal and uniquely musical presentation in every day human expression is speech. With words, we combine in a selective way morphemes; deliberate pieces of content that we string together with adherence to the history of our use...

Theoretical Paper

Randi Rolvsjord:

Music as a Poetic Language

I have found Kristeva's psycho-linguistic theory interesting for music therapists because it grasps the interaction of the mediated and cultural dimensions of musical communication, as well as emphasizes the unmediated,...

Essay

Jos De Backer & Julie Sutton:

Perspectives on Meaning in Music Therapy

Frequently, English is the language of international congresses. The authors recognize that it is crucial for music therapists who want to join the international music therapy scene to be able to understand and speak good English...

Essay

Mercédès Pavlicevic:

Hearing African Voices: Music Therapy and the Polyphony of Near and Far. . .

It attempts to sound the various African voices and realities, swinging within and between the traditional and modern, indigenous and colonised. The extraordinary difficulty in synthesising all of this reflects something about African Life...

Clinical Paper

Emma O'Brien:

The Language of Guided Song Writing with a Bone Marrow Transplant Patient

The music therapy literature often refers to music as a unique universal language – one that is able to connect with all human beings, from all walks of life. One of the unique skills of the music therapist therefore, is the ability to access music through language ...

Clinical Paper

Takeshi Watanabe:

引きこもる青少年とうたことば

本稿では、対人関係に疎通性を残しながらも、行き交う人々の流れを窓越しに見つめ、一人自室で画集をのぞき音楽に癒しを求めた青年と、「語る苦しさ」を味わいつつも「察する可能性」を模索し続けた記録から、「うたことばに見付けた、はなしことばへの出口」という視点から報告したい。...

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Withdrawn Youngsters and Lyrics

The author wants to report on how withdrawn youngsters that found lyrics that embrace them, these lyrics can serve as a means to “let their voices out first” and “speak” later on ...

Report

Bussakorn & Aksaranukraw:

The Use of Thai Musical Instruments as a Tool in Music Therapy with Akaboshi's Musical Therapy Method

The purpose of this study was to compare the use of Thai instruments to the instruments employed in the Japanese Akaboshi method of music therapy ...

International Archives

Marianne Bargiel:

Berceuses et chansonnettes: considérations théoriques pour une intervention musicothérapeutique précoce de l'attachement par le chant parental auprès de nourrissons au développement à risques

La fonction cohésive et socialisante de la musique, combinée à la fonction de régulation de l'affect et de l'éveil des berceuses et chansonnettes, pourrait potentiellement être mises à contribution ensemble dans une approche familiale naturelle, simple et économique...

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Lullabies and Play songs: Theoretical Considerations for an Early Attachment Music Therapy Intervention through Parental Singing for Developmentally At-Risk Infants

The cohesive and socializing function of music, combined with lullabies’ and play songs’ function in regulating affect and arousal, might together contribute to achieving a natural, simple, and economical familial approach...