Listening, playing, creating : essays on the power of sound / edited by Carolyn Bereznak Kenny.

Kenny, Carolyn.
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • The silent source / John Marcus — The unbidden song / Frances Smith Goldberg — Entering the world of tones / David Marcus — The power of sound and music in therapy and healing / Barbara Hesser — On sound, music, listening, and music therapy / Dorit Amir — Unsound medicine / Lisa Summer — The power of silence in music therapy / Gillian Stephens Langdon — Listening : a sacred act / Nancy McMaster — Floors of music / Joanne Crandall — The almost unappreciated, nearly ignored power of sound, and its abuse / Christopher Tree — Sound waves mirror / Michael Fles — Improvisation as a liminal experience : jazz and music therapy as modern rites de passage / Even Ruud — Sound and meaning / David Burrows — Close encounters of the musical kind / Paul Lauzon — The sound image : music therapy in the treatment of the abused child / Connie Isenberg-Grzeda — Singing practices and states of consciousness / Penelope Nichols-Rothe — Meetings with the unsounded voice / Peter O’Loughlin — Modes of consciousness in guided imagery and music (GIM) : a therapist’s experience of the guiding process / Kenneth E. Bruscia — Death and rebirth experiences in music and music therapy / Benedikte Scheiby — Candomblé : Afro-Brazilian ritual as therapy / Joseph J. Moreno — An aesthetic foundation of clinical theory : an underlying basis of creative music therapy / Kenneth Aigen — My funeral music / Jeremy J. Shapiro — The listener : dreaming the soundscape with Howard Broomfield / Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington — The powwow / Carolyn Bereznak-Kenny.
  • This interdisciplinary work is a tapestry of thought generated by music therapists, scholars, and performers in related fields such as anthropology, philosophy, music composition/performance, psychology, and musicology. It is woven together by the editor through a description of the process of interdisciplinary engagement, a personal description of her relationship with each author and a final statement on the power of sound. The book is organized around the themes of listening, playing, and creating – essential processes in the work of music as therapy. –Jacket.

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