Comments on: Why Can’t They All Be Like This? http://rachelmsmith.org.uk/wordpress/2009/06/why-cant-they-all-be-like-this/ Community Music & Arts in Oxford, UK Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:21:54 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ralph http://rachelmsmith.org.uk/wordpress/2009/06/why-cant-they-all-be-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Ralph Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:31:52 +0000 http://rachelmsmith.org.uk/wordpress/?p=204#comment-104 I don't know whether you've read Gary's paper 'Community Music Therapy and the Winds of Change' (http://www.voices.no/mainissues/Voices2(2)ansdell.html) but he talks in detail about music therapy and community music, both on their own merits, and then as precedents of community music therapy (He does however retract the 'paradigm shift' statement in his book 'Community Music Therapy'). Interesting stuff. I know you don't claim your work is music therapy, but it's certainly musical, and I'm sure it's therapeutic. 'Sounds like music therapy' is a quasi-slogan thrown around on our training days to describe work we've seen that can't be called music therapy, but appears to share much in common with it. I don’t know whether you’ve read Gary’s paper ‘Community Music Therapy and the Winds of Change’ (http://www.voices.no/mainissues/Voices2(2)ansdell.html) but he talks in detail about music therapy and community music, both on their own merits, and then as precedents of community music therapy (He does however retract the ‘paradigm shift’ statement in his book ‘Community Music Therapy’). Interesting stuff.

I know you don’t claim your work is music therapy, but it’s certainly musical, and I’m sure it’s therapeutic. ‘Sounds like music therapy’ is a quasi-slogan thrown around on our training days to describe work we’ve seen that can’t be called music therapy, but appears to share much in common with it.

]]> By: Rachel http://rachelmsmith.org.uk/wordpress/2009/06/why-cant-they-all-be-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Rachel Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:18:05 +0000 http://rachelmsmith.org.uk/wordpress/?p=204#comment-99 Thank you, Ralph, for your comment. I hope that the sessions I run do have therapeutic aspects to them. Of course, I'm not a qualified music therapist, so I do not claim it is Music Therapy. I would love to understand more what the new and developing field of Community Music Therapy looks like. At a conference in Folkestone in September 08, Gary Ansdell described music therapy and community music as being on a continuum... Thank you, Ralph, for your comment. I hope that the sessions I run do have therapeutic aspects to them. Of course, I’m not a qualified music therapist, so I do not claim it is Music Therapy.
I would love to understand more what the new and developing field of Community Music Therapy looks like. At a conference in Folkestone in September 08, Gary Ansdell described music therapy and community music as being on a continuum…

]]> By: Ralph http://rachelmsmith.org.uk/wordpress/2009/06/why-cant-they-all-be-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Ralph Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:55:05 +0000 http://rachelmsmith.org.uk/wordpress/?p=204#comment-97 Sounds super, sounds fab.... Sounds like music therapy. Sounds super, sounds fab…. Sounds like music therapy.

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