Main Issue, Vol. 5, No. 3.

Editorial

Carolyn Kenny:

"Edith Hillman Boxill—Making Peace"

This article gives some introductory thoughts on the 'paradoxes of performance' in contemporary music therapy, through the perspective of the evolving practice and discourse of Community Music Therapy—where aspects of the practice, theory and ethics of performance in music therapy are currently being debated.

Theoretical Paper

Gary Ansdell:

Being Who You Aren't; Doing What You Can't: Community Music Therapy & the Paradoxes of Performance

Theoretical Paper

Eugenia Hernandez-Ruiz:

Postmodernism and Music Therapy

...I observe that music therapy and music therapy research, in particular, are undergoing a process of change towards a more inclusive methodology, one that will allow us to "listen more and better." As music therapists, I believe this is a quality we might consider ...

Essay

Wang Feng Ng:

Music Therapy, War Trauma, and Peace: A Singaporean Perspective

...[Music therapists] are increasingly involved in providing services to war trauma survivors. In the post 9/11 world, many have been, and continue to be traumatized by war, acts of terrorism, and violence worldwide. Some music therapists have sought to respond actively to these events ...

Clinical Paper

Sunnelle Fouché and Kerryn Torrance:

Lose Yourself in the Music, The Moment, Yo! Music Therapy with an Adolescent Group Involved in Gangsterism

...Within the Music Therapy room, our experience is that gang members' roles and identities are shed, and replaced by vulnerable and open young people. Music therapy provides an opportunity to explore different ways of relating, creating and expressing...

Clinical Paper

Kathryn Lindenfelser:

Parents' Voices Supporting Music Therapy within Pediatric Palliative Care

It has been my experience that parents are willing and open to express their voices to promote and advocate for music therapy services for their terminally ill children... This article will describe pediatric palliative and hospice care, discuss parents as advocates for their terminally ill children, portray the use of music therapy within pediatrics, and share an example of music therapy with Jack....

Report

Elisabeth Martins Petersen:

Music Therapy and Oncology at the National Institute of Cancer

Music therapy in hospitals aims to use music as a complementary resource in the care of patients, promoting "the resolution of emotional questions" in the encounter with the illness and treatment, contributing, in many cases, to the magnifying of consciousness in the health-illness process. ...

Interview

Sumathy Sundar:

Can Music Therapists Synergise With Medical Practitioners to Make Music Therapy Evidence-based?

International Archive

Kenneth E. Bruscia:

Standards of Integrity for Qualitative Music Therapy Research

...the purpose of this article is to enlarge our constructions about the integrity of qualitative music therapy research, by creating a set of standards that reflect the essentially artistic nature of our epistemology and methodology as therapists. Standards are here defined as ...