MU158 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Biofeedback, Pain Management, Music Therapy
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As a discipline, music therapy is an organized body of knowledge consisting of theory, practice and research all pertaining to the professional uses of music for therapeutic purposes. As a profession, it is an organized group of people using the same body of knowledge in their vocations as clinicians, educators, administrators, supervisors etc. Proposes that music therapy as a discipline is the study and learning of the relationship between music and health. This is much broader than the present definition: a specific set of practices combining music and therapy. Stige says that music therapy as professional practice is situated health musicking in a planned process of collaboration between client and therapist. As an art, music therapy is concerned with subjectivity, individuality, creativity, and beauty. As a science, it is concerned with objectivity, universality, replicability, and truth. As a humanity, it is concerned with interpersonal processes on all levels including community, society and culture.
