Main Issue, Vol. 4, No. 3.

Editorial

Brynjulf Stige:

Feminists, Postcolonialists, and Other Music Therapists

..."Feminists, Postcolonialists, and Other Music Therapists" - You may read this line as a contention, claiming that there are links between feminist and postcolonial discourse and music therapy practice. You may also read it as an invitation...

Essay

Sandra L. Curtis & Chesley Sigmon Mercado:

Community Music Therapy for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities

...A number of creative community engagement strategies were embraced within the Performing Arts Program: building music communities through performance; building communities of resistance among those with and without disabilities; connecting and engaging with broader communities...

Essay

Bernard M. Kigunda:

Music Therapy Canning and the Healing Rituals of Catholic Charismatics in Kenya

...Rituals have potential not only to be testing ground for some workable music therapy ideas, but also to ultimately develop as a music therapy method...

Report

Rosemary Faire & Dianne Langan:

Expressive Music Therapy: Empowering Engaged Citizens and Communities

...Imagination is a key element of the power of the arts therapies. Through the arts process, we can enter into an "alternative experience of worlding"...

Report

Mariya Ivannikova:

Ukrainian Music Therapy - Does It Have a Chance to Exist?

..."Music therapy in the Ukraine - does it have a chance to exist?" This is the question I get every time a new person learns about my interests and striving. "Do you really think that such deluxe activity has a place in the lives of people who suffer from so many problems and needs during the growth of their state?"...

Report

Rosemary Faire:

Environmental Community Arts: Refinding Natural Connections

...my work is to support people to allow their own creative spirit to emerge in the way they used to as children; and, through environmental community art, to use the arts to strengthen their bond with the natural environment...

Report

Yuji Igari:

"Music Therapy is Changing" and So Am I: Reconstructing the Identity of A Music Therapist

...It is interesting that the more complete the music therapy becomes with the new theories, the more complete I also become as a music therapist and as a person...