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- Title
THE IMPACT OF MUSIC THERAPISTS' MUSIC CULTURES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL FRAMEWORKS.
- Authors
Gonzalez, Patricia J.
- Abstract
This qualitative study examines the impact of music therapists' music cultures on the development of their professional frameworks. While the impact that music has on a person's identity has been widely studied, research has yet to explore the impact of music culture on a music therapist's professional framework. Prior to becoming therapists, these professionals identified themselves as musicians. As musicians, they had musical relationships with people, institutions, and/or styles of music that resulted in each of them experiencing various music cultures. In an effort to explore the impact that these music cultures have on therapists' professional frameworks, a phenomenological inquiry was conducted with three music therapists from differing music cultural backgrounds, including jazz, rock-band, and classical. Results of the data analysis revealed that the therapists' experiences with their music cultures began as young children. During adolescence, the therapists appeared to rely upon music as a resource to help them maintain balanced lives. Further analysis uncovered a connection between the ways in which participants related to their music cultures and used music as a resource and the manner in which they presently work as therapists. Through learning more about the lived experiences of these therapists, this study provides the music therapy community a better understanding about the impact music cultures have on therapists' professional identities and foundations for clinical practice.
- Subjects
MUSIC therapists; EXPERIENCE; DATA analysis; IDENTITY (Psychology); PSYCHOTHERAPY
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy, 2011, Vol 6, p1
- ISSN
1559-7326
- Publication type
Article