Table Of ContentWhere Music helps: coMMunity Music
therapy in action and reflection
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Where Music helps:
community Music therapy in
Action and Reflection
Brynjulf stige,
University of Bergen, Norway
Uni Health, GAMUT, Norway
gary ansdell
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, UK
cochavit elefant
University of Bergen, Norway
Mercédès pavlicevic
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, UK
University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Where music helps: community music therapy in action and reflection. – (Ashgate popular
and folk music series)
1. Music therapy. 2. Music – Social aspects.
i. series ii. stige, Brynjulf.
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stige, Brynjulf.
Where music helps: community music therapy in action and reflection / Brynjulf Stige,
gary ansdell, cochavit elefant, and Mercédès pavlicevic.
p. cm. – (Ashgate popular and folk music series)
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6850-3 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Music therapy. 2. Music – Social aspects. I. Ansdell, Gary. II. Elefant, Cochavit. III.
pavlicevic, Mercédès. iv. title.
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contents
List of Figures ix
General Editor’s Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I
Brynjulf Stige, Gary Ansdell, Cochavit Elefant and Mercédès Pavlicevic
1 Introduction: Music and health in community 3
2 situating authors and projects 17
Part II
Gary Ansdell
3 Action: Musicing on the edge: Musical Minds in east london,
england 33
4 Reflection: Belonging through Musicing: explorations of Musical
community 41
Part III
Cochavit Elefant
5 Action: Must We really end? community integration of children
in raanana, israel 65
6 Reflection: Musical inclusion, intergroup relations, and community
development 75
Part IV
Mercédès Pavlicevic
7 Action: Because it’s cool. community Music therapy in heideveld,
south africa 93
8 Reflection: let the Music Work: optimal Moments of collaborative
Musicing 99
vi WHERE MUSIC HELPS
Part V
Brynjulf Stige
9 Action: a society for all? the Cultural Festival in sogn og fjordane,
norway 115
10 Reflection: Musical participation, social space, and everyday ritual
125
Part VI
Gary Ansdell
11 Action: can everything Become Music? Scrap Metal in southern
england 151
12 Reflection: Where performing helps: processes and affordances of
performance in community Music therapy 161
Part VII
Cochavit Elefant
13 Action: Whose voice is heard? performances and voices of the
Renanim choir in israel 189
14 Reflection: giving voice: participatory action research with a
Marginalized group 199
Part VIII
Mercédès Pavlicevic
15 Action: Music in an ambiguous place: Youth Development Outreach
in eersterust, south africa 219
16 Reflection: crime, community, and everyday practice: Music therapy as
social activism 223
Part IX
Brynjulf Stige
17 Action: caring for Music: the Senior Choir in sandane, norway 245
18 Reflection: practicing Music as Mutual care 253
CONTENTS vii
Part X
Brynjulf Stige, Gary Ansdell, Cochavit Elefant and Mercédès Pavlicevic
19 Conclusion: When things take shape in relation to Music:
towards an ecological perspective on Music’s help 277
Bibliography 309
Index 329
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list of figures
4.1 community generated through musicing together 54
4.2 Stige’s model of “communal musicking.” Source: Stige (2003, p. 174) 56
7.1 choir rules 96
10.1 conventional participation as high achievement. photo: ragnar
albertsen 129
10.2 forms of participation as a repertoire of possibilities 132
10.3 greeting ritual establishing bodily co-presence, mutual focus, and
shared mood. photo: ragnar albertsen 135
10.4 greeting ritual developing into adventurous participation. photo:
ragnar albertsen 136
10.5 the pleasure of adventurous participation. photo: ragnar albertsen 137
10.6 Ritual intensification. Photo: Ragnar Albertsen 140
10.7 levels of energy and degrees of mutual focus in musical interaction 142
10.8 ritual outcomes: energy, symbols, and solidarity. photo: ragnar
albertsen. 144
11.1 the program for Scrap Metal’s concert 152
11.2 stuart Wood’s three stage program of community Music therapy
work. Source: Wood, Verney and Atkinson (2004), From Therapy to
Community: Making Music in Neurological Rehabilitation. london:
jessica Kingsley publishers, p. 52. reproduced with permission
from jessica Kingsley publishers 153
11.3 the “ripple effect” in action. source: Wood, verney and atkinson
(2004), From Therapy to Community: Making Music in Neurological
Rehabilitation. london: jessica Kingsley publishers, p. 61. reproduced
with permission from jessica Kingsley publishers 154
13.1 the Renanim choir during performance 196
13.2 avi’s solo 198
14.1 collaboration between academic researcher and co-researchers
in PAR cycles (discussions focused upon assessment, planning,
evaluation, and reflection) 203
16.1 group-talk on music 232
16.2 adapting known songs by creating words that are relevant to the
present 236
16.3 heideveld community concert 238
18.1 the Senior Choir in sandane in concert. photo: rune rolvsjord 259
18.2 We came to sing and stayed to dance … photo: rune rolvsjord 263
19.1 When the “para-musical” takes shape in relation to the “musical” 299
