Maren Metell, H. Miyake, A. Dell'antonio, A. H. Zisk
{"title":"Whose Power, Whose Language? Exploring Issues of Power and Language in Music Therapy","authors":"Maren Metell, H. Miyake, A. Dell'antonio, A. H. Zisk","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3808","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue explores the topic of power and language in music therapy in the various ways it manifests within and beyond music therapy. We, the guest editors, are a group of four people at different points of their academic career, some have English as their primary languages and others don’t, we are neurodivergent and neurotypical, living in Norway, Japan, and the US. Our group consists of two music therapists, a musicologist, and an AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) researcher.","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123769066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ted Ficken: Music of Hate, Music for Healing","authors":"Vincent Miller","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3753","url":null,"abstract":"This is a book review of Music of Hate, Music For Healing: Paired Stories from the Hate Music Industry and the Profession of Music Therapy by Ted Ficken published by Luminare Press in 2020. ","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116486787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“What Sound Does a Cat Make in Cantonese?”","authors":"Tamar Hadar","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3483","url":null,"abstract":"In this piece, I wish to examine the notion of translation and to question the need of an interpreter in music therapy settings. Through reflecting on a therapeutic relationship between me, an Israeli music therapist working in the United States, and a Chinese American family (two parents, a grandmother, and their 2-year-old infant that is likely autistic), I wish to ponder the losses and gains of establishing a relationship that refrains from using a dominant verbal language (represented by an interpreter). Embracing the absence of any verbal and cultural monopoly, this work will present a plural lingual approach and show how it provides an opportunity for clients whose primary language differs from the primary language of the therapist to walk their first steps in an unfamiliar world. I will then explore two parallel processes that took place in the therapeutic encounter: the first, relating to the family’s capacity to contain their infant’s minimal verbal state, and the second, relating to my own endeavor to communicate with the family as a non-native English speaker and as an immigrant music therapist. I hope that my reflections will provide insight regarding lingual plurality in a multicultural context in music therapy.","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"45 Suppl 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133895540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against Cure and Toward Access in Musical Engagement","authors":"Stephanie Ban","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3387","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I reflect on my own experiences undergoing occupational therapy with musical elements in the United States in childhood for impairments related to physical coordination and visual processing. Although therapy involving music was by far the most enjoyable and least painful of the therapies and treatments I underwent as a multiply-disabled child, it was still anchored in the language of removing my impairments and/or aligning me better with nondisabled norms. I build on the work of Robert Gross (incorporating the social model of disability into music therapy) and Emily Elaine Williams (the participatory model of accommodation enabling music for pleasure, not for therapy). I also draw on works in the autistic and cross-disability online spheres on the overmedicalization of disabled people’s leisure activities to argue that framing music as a possible agent of cure or normalization harmfully obscures the ways in which music can provide access and mitigate impairments when directed and controlled by the listener, rather than by the therapist. My paper will also contrast music as therapy (imposed by others) vs. music as access tool (self-imposed) via a playlist and corresponding analysis. Music is central to my overall engagement with the world, affecting everything from processing and describing emotions, to communicating, to aiding in sensory processing. By introducing music as an access tool, or even as a form of assistive technology, I aim to challenge the dominant framing of normalization in therapy involving music and shift the focus to affirming disabled ways of engaging with music.","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122817552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wie gesellschaftliche Normen und Machtverhältnisse durch Sprache vermittelt werden","authors":"Julia Fent","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3400","url":null,"abstract":"In diesem Artikel umreiße ich zunächst mein Dissertationsprojekt, in welchem ich eine Analyse deutschsprachiger musiktherapeutischer Diskurse aus einer diskriminierungs-kritischen Perspektive vornahm. Dies geschah im Rahmen einer partizipativen Forschungsgruppe zusammen mit anderen Musiktherapeut:innen und durch die Analyse von Musiktherapie-Lehrbüchern. Theoretische Bezüge lieferten hierbei der Ansatz der Intersektionalität und Queer Theory, deren diskriminierungskritisches Potenzial ich kurz skizzieren werde. In der Beschreibung meines Vorgehens bei der Textanalyse und der Vorstellung der Ergebnisse werde ich Aspekte wie Wertungen, Ausschlüsse und Othering und deren sprachliche Erscheinungsformen aufzeigen. Parallel dazu werde ich auf der Grundlage meiner Erkenntnisse Vorschläge machen, wie anti-diskriminatorische Bemühungen in der Musiktherapie durch die kritische Reflexion der geschriebenen sowie der gesprochenen Sprache und entsprechende Veränderungen derselben unterstützt werden können. ","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132219768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicki Power, Emma Millard, Activists and Artists at The Lawnmowers Independent Theater Company, C. Carr
{"title":"Un-Labelling the Language","authors":"Nicki Power, Emma Millard, Activists and Artists at The Lawnmowers Independent Theater Company, C. Carr","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3391","url":null,"abstract":"People with learning disabilities are often excluded from society. This is changing; however, discrimination persists. Language is one way in which people can be excluded. In healthcare and research, the use of labels and jargon can be a barrier to inclusion. A group of artist-researchers from the UK, some with learning disabilities and some without, wanted to explore power and language in the lives of people with learning disabilities. The group included social change activists The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company - who identify as having learning disabilities, and arts therapist researchers working in the National Health Service (NHS). Using arts-based participatory action research methods, we held two co-produced workshops. The first, explore power, jargon and labels for people with learning disabilities and the second, with the arts therapists only, deepened our understanding of exclusion. We used a range of arts-based approaches including improvised performance and music, reflective art making and poetry writing. This article describes the process of working together and how the arts helped us to connect and explore challenging issues. We discuss the different ways labels impact who we are and the power they have to include or exclude people with learning disabilities from healthcare and research. Our participatory approach supported multifaceted knowledge to emerge, which both empowered participants and laid foundations for an ongoing social change partnership. We share our recommendations to make research and healthcare more accessible for people with learning disabilities.","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130858179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whose \"Power of Music\"? Questioning and Problematizing aspects of Language and Power in Music Therapy Practice within Mainstream Primary Schools in the UK","authors":"Joanna Parsons","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3406","url":null,"abstract":"Music therapists have long worked in specialist and mainstream school settings and their practice, therefore, has been influenced by discourse used in both education and therapy. Parts of the discourse from both fields tends to pathologize children and focus on individual problems and treatment. In the same space, critical frameworks seek to challenge this by advocating for language and practice that is inclusive and context sensitive. By focusing on the complex nature of a mainstream setting, this article will highlight how music therapy practice might serve to strengthen or challenge deficit-based discourse around children within their school environments. I propose that, within school communities, there is much to be learned from paying closer attention to people's voices and expertise regarding their own practices and knowledge of both music and health. By illustrating day-to-day school life, I reflect on how particular approaches, choices of language and practice might impact how music is experienced and how this relates to health and wellbeing. ","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114500047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting to “No” You","authors":"Roia Rafieyan","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3373","url":null,"abstract":"Nonspeaking autistic people frequently begin music therapy at the request of others. Typically, family or care systems are tasked with making decisions on their behalf and have decided this service will be of benefit. Consequently, music therapy is a given rather than a choice. For this paper I have used my own evolving understanding to explore the complexities and power dynamics related to nonspeaking people being able to say “no” to music therapy. Elements in this discussion include: (a) the ability, and safety, to say “no” in the context of a culture of compliance, (b) the complicated relationship between music therapists and the systems within which they work, and how this affects the therapy relationship, and (c) the role of music therapy practice standards. I advocate the following: (1) presume competence, (2) enter the therapy space with curiosity and openness, (3) be willing to “get to know,” (4) coping skills or communication attempts are not “behavior” in need of correction, and (5) learn how each nonspeaking person communicates “no.” Actively encouraging and respecting treatment refusal goes a long way toward building a respectful music therapy practice/relationship.","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"157 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128808631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antony D. Gee, The disembodied voice of Mike Barrett (DVoMB)
{"title":"Recounting a Dream about Music, Language and Submitting an Abstract for Voices","authors":"Antony D. Gee, The disembodied voice of Mike Barrett (DVoMB)","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3382","url":null,"abstract":"Hi Mike .... I had the idea yesterday to submit some of my music pieces as part of an abstract submission to \"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy to explore the topic of language and power in music therapy. \" posted yesterday. \u0000These are the starting lines of the abstract. The entire submission can be found in the PDF which includes the entire abstract-submission and review process. This submission is in two parts. The first part is the original abstract which was considered as a complete submission. Part 1 contains a proactive engagement with The disembodied voice of Mike Barrett. The second part is the dialogue between the reviewer, lead author, and editors during the review process.","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129065328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back to my Mother Tongue","authors":"E. Roginsky","doi":"10.15845/voices.v22i3.3393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v22i3.3393","url":null,"abstract":"\"I wish you would teach in Arabic,\" a student tells me. She takes my breath away: that language barrier again. So familiar. About a year ago, following an ongoing struggle with academic English, I returned to Hebrew, reclaiming the freedom of writing and speech, even at the cost of sharing my thoughts with a wider audience, publishing my texts, and achieving more recognition. This critical essay describes the experience of a non- English-speaking music therapist and academic through the prism of language and power. The complex influences of verbal speech are described. The ideal of international language, its benefits and its consequences are presented as well. The author's story, her mother tongue, Hebrew, and a recent Israeli survey on the accessibility of language may serve to shine a light on possibly similar experiences of non-English-speaking music therapists. The experiences of a Palestinian, Arab-speaking music therapist also complement this narrative. In closing, the author reflects on the possible implications of dominant languages on the global music therapy community and challenges the value of this ideal. \u0000תקציר\u0000\"לו רק לימדתם בערבית\" אומרת בסוף ההרצאה הסטודנטית האחרונה שנשארה בכיתה. אני מרימה אליה ראש ומפסיקה לנשום, המומה מהכנות שלה. היא משיבה אותי אל מחסום השפה שגם אני חווה: אל אותו רגע לפני שנה שבו החלטתי לשוב לכתוב בשפת אמי לאחר מאבק מתמשך עם האנגלית האקדמית. לתבוע מחדש את חירות המחשבה והדיבור אפילו במחיר צמצום היכולת לפרסם, לחלוק מחשבות עם העולם המקצועי הרחב ולקבל הכרה מקצועית.\u0000המאמר הנוכחי, מאמר ביקורת, עוסק בבעיית השפה של מטפלות ומטפלים במוסיקה ואקדמאים בעלי שפת אם שאינה אנגלית. מתוארות במאמר השפעותיה המורכבות של שפה על האדם: יתרונותיה והמחירים שהיא גובה. חווייתם של מטפלים במוסיקה שאינם דוברי אנגלית במקור מודגמת באמצעות סיפורה האישי של המחברת ושפת אמה, העברית, ובעזרת סקר בו השתתפו מטפלים במוסיקה העובדים במדינת ישראל. משלימה את המסע חווייתה של מטפלת במוסיקה פלסטינית הדוברת ערבית כשפת אם. בעקבות כל אלה המאמר נוגע בהשלכות האפשריות של שפות בינלאומיות דומיננטיות על התפתחותן של קהילות מקצוע מקומיות, ועל הקהילה העולמית של טיפול במוסיקה. בין המילים משולבים קטעי אמנות חזותית וקול להרחבה והמחשה.","PeriodicalId":340679,"journal":{"name":"Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128320188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}