Balance Between the Worlds: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Vedan

Abstract

In this article, Dr. Richard Vedan, a Secwepmec, lodge keeper, and medical social worker converses with Dr. Carolyn Kenny about critical elements of medical ethnomusicology as seen and experienced through an Indigenous context.  Dilemmas of individualism versus collectivism and isolation versus connectivity underlie the entire conversation.  Relevant themes in the traditional use of music in Indigenous healing are discussed.