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Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy

The word ‘therapy’ is known to be a challenging one in music therapy. This discourse-oriented stu... more The word ‘therapy’ is known to be a challenging one in music therapy. This discourse-oriented study asks: how do a group of adolescents and their music therapists in the child welfare services relate to the word ‘therapy,’ and how can music therapy as a profession get round problems connected to the use of it? The data consists of case study material from collaborative interviews of six Norwegian adolescents in out-of-home care and their music therapists in the first author’s ongoing PhD study. Systematic text condensation is used to collect relevant meaning-bearing citations for further discussion and in-depth reflection. The findings show that the word ‘therapy’ creates profoundly negative associations among the informants. In fact, it creates so many difficulties that we actually question if ‘music therapy’ is a fitting label at all. However, because it seems unlikely and even unwise to develop new labels of the well-established ‘music therapy,’ we suggest starting the process of...

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Qualitative systematic reviews, or qualitative evidence syntheses (QES), are increasingly used in... more Qualitative systematic reviews, or qualitative evidence syntheses (QES), are increasingly used in health settings to guide the development of practice and policy. Thematic synthesis is one of the most well-developed approaches used for QES, however there are limited worked examples describing how to apply the steps of analysis in the literature. This paper describes the processes and decisions undertaken in a qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis from the perspective of a novice researcher. The described review aimed to explore the shared musical experiences of people living with dementia and their family care partners across a range of settings. We found that shared musical activities fostered experiences of connection and wellbeing for people living with dementia and their family care partners. This was demonstrated with moderate-high confidence through six themes, and our findings informed the development of the Contextual Connection Model of Health Musicking. In p...

Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 2020

Purpose: Interest in the health relevance of music has been growing rapidly, yet few studies have... more Purpose: Interest in the health relevance of music has been growing rapidly, yet few studies have addressed the protective role of music for music professionals themselves. In the current study, we investigated music professionals' (music teachers, music therapists, musicians and academics) health, particularly their uses of music as a resource for their psychological health. Design: An online survey (N = 504) for music professionals was conducted across four Nordic countries. Participants responded to questions on music as a resource for psychological health and assessed their general levels of health and health behaviors. Their self-reported health was compared to similar prior data from the general Danish population (N = 14,022). Findings: Music professionals demonstrated high levels of self-reported health and health behaviors and approved of the idea of music as a resource for their psychological health. The most important psychological function of music for them was that music provided affective experiences. Music also provided feelings of belonging and supported mood regulation, but did not really offer relaxation or help to concentrate. Music teachers and therapists reported significantly higher use of music as a personal resource for psychological health than musicians and academics. Value: The results provide new insights into music playing a dual role-professional and personal resource-for different types of music professionals. The findings have relevance for how to address music in the training of musicians and create grounds for dialogue about the role of music for music professionals in comparison to laymen.

Dette verket omfattes av bestemmelsene i Lov om opphavsretten til åndsverk m.v. av 1961. Verket u... more Dette verket omfattes av bestemmelsene i Lov om opphavsretten til åndsverk m.v. av 1961. Verket utgis Open Access under betingelsene i Creative Commons-lisensen CC-BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Denne tillater tredjepart å kopiere, distribuere og spre verket i hvilket som helst medium eller format, og å remixe, endre, og bygge videre på materialet til et hvilket som helst formål, inkludert kommersielle, under betingelse av at korrekt kreditering og en lenke til lisensen er oppgitt, og at man indikerer om endringer er blitt gjort. Tredjepart kan gjøre dette på enhver rimelig måte, men uten at det kan forstås slik at lisensgiver bifaller tredjepart eller tredjeparts bruk av verket. Boka er utgitt med støtte fra Høgskolen i Innlandet, OsloMet-storbyuniversitetet, Norges musikkhøgskole, Steinerhøyskolen, Universitetet i Bergen og Universitetet i Oslo.

Innhold: English abstracts. - Redaktorenes forord. - Forord / Jon-Roar Bjorkvold. - Barn, musik o... more Innhold: English abstracts. - Redaktorenes forord. - Forord / Jon-Roar Bjorkvold. - Barn, musik och halsa : om sjalvutveckling och kanslohantering / Bjorn Wrangsjo & Gro Trondalen. - Vitalitetsformer i musikk / Unni Tanum Johns. - Att spela trumma for sitt ofodda barn : och hvad detta kan bety for barnets valbefinnande och halsa / Maria Bovin de Labbe. - "Mellom liv og drom." : om vuggesangens helsefilosofiske betydning / Lisa Bonnar. - Et specialdesignet musikkoncepts betydning og effekt (for generel velbefindende og helsefremme hos born med kraeft i kemoterapi) / Ilan Sanfi. - "Da er jeg liksom glad..." : om musikk og helse i barns hverdagslige omgang med musikk / Ingeborg Lunde Vestad. - Storycomposing as method in music therapy : a colloborative experiment with a young co-researcher / Hanna Hakomaki. - Bidrag til fagterminologi for en relasjonell musikkestetikk / Tony Valberg. - Dialogue on intersubjectivity : interview with Stein Braten and Colwyn Trevarthen...

Vignette 1: When Petronella and her ‘close other’1 enter the semi lit room, the only thing they s... more Vignette 1: When Petronella and her ‘close other’1 enter the semi lit room, the only thing they see is the big octopus-like pillow known as the WAVE carpet, which is interactive and musical and has a built-in camera and microphone as well as capacities for vibration and audio. Petronella lies down on the WAVE carpet while her close other sits beside it, next to her. Soon, Petronella finds the particular arm of the WAVE carpet that houses the microphone. She picks it up and says ‘Say Europe’ into it. When her close other bends the sensor of another arm of the WAVE, they both hear the carpet say ‘Europe!’ in a voice that is similar to Petronella’s but somewhat distorted and different as well. Petronella finds this amusing and says other words into the microphone, all of which the WAVE carpet repeats back to her. However, when Petronella eventually says ‘Say Taco!’ into the microphone, the WAVE says ‘Europe!’ instead. Petronella is surprised, then laughs. Her close other laughs too.

In music pedagogy, as well as in music therapy, the element of improvisation and free playing is ... more In music pedagogy, as well as in music therapy, the element of improvisation and free playing is often vital to empower and motivate. This article discusses Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of dialogue in such settings by asking what implications it could have on our understanding of musical improvisation in asymmetric relations (e.g. teacher/therapist – pupil/client). It suggests that it may be perceived as a complex social and relational event that is on the border, or, to borrow the words of Bakhtin (1981: 293) “half someone else’s” that becomes one’s own when it is populated with one’s own accent and adapted to one’s own semantic and expressive intention. This process, what is labelled musical dialoguing1, remains influenceable and unfinalised, and contains not just consensus and harmony but also dissonances and misunderstandings. Also, both players negotiate and participate actively while listening openly and aesthetically to the voice of the other while at the same time doubting his/...

Vignett Når musikkterapeutane på måndagens skolekor spør om det er nokon av elevane som vil komme... more Vignett Når musikkterapeutane på måndagens skolekor spør om det er nokon av elevane som vil komme fram på scena og synge solo på songen ”Så fint det er”, rekkjer Petter opp handa og seier ”Jeg... Jeg vil!”1 Petter går fram mot scenekanten og tar imot mikrofonen som blir gitt han, stiller seg opp føre heile koret med ca 100 kjente ansikt – smiler mot dei, og gjer seg klar. Ein av musikkterapeutane spelar eit forspel på piano, akkompagnert av ei på bass og ei på tverrfløyte. Petter tar sats, ser mot publikum og kjem riktig inn på verset. Han syng i veg, riktig nok med litt eigenarta uttale av orda, men med fast mine, og med mot , engasjement og stor begeistring: ”Så fint det er – så fint det er, å høre gjøk og trost og stær – og kjenne nå er våren her – så fint det eeer!” Alle i koret som han kjenner, hans publikum, klappar og smiler tilbake til Petter når songen tonar ut og han beveger seg stolt ned igjen på plassen sin.

Innhold: Utgivers forord. - Forord. - A sette seg selv i spill: Om ansvar, moral, etikk og utford... more Innhold: Utgivers forord. - Forord. - A sette seg selv i spill: Om ansvar, moral, etikk og utfordringer i motet med barn med multifunksjonshemming / Turid Horgen. - Kroppslig samspill i musikkterapi / Kjersti Johansson. - Improvisasjon i et dialogisk kommunikasjonsperspektiv / Gro E. Hallan Tonsberg. - Felles aktivitet som laeringsarena / Anne Toro Eggen. - Video som observasjons- og analyseverktoy: A se med «mikroskop» / Signe Marie Galaasen. - Supervision af novicemusikterapeuter i arbejde med born med betydelige og varige funktionsnedsaettelser / Ulla Holck. - «A spele for livet med hjartet i halsen»: Om helse, Bakhtinsk dialog og eksistensielle overtonar i musikkterapi med barn med multifunksjonshemming / Karette Stensaeth. - Forfatterne

Welcome to the first 2017 edition of Approaches! Last year was dedicated to two special issues: M... more Welcome to the first 2017 edition of Approaches! Last year was dedicated to two special issues: Music, Drama, Dance Movement and Art Therapy: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Karkou 2016) and Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Music Therapy and Special Music Education (Habron 2016). The interdisciplinary focus of these two special issues highlights the vision of Approaches: to provide diverse perspectives on music therapy practice, profession and discipline by fostering polyphonic dialogues and by linking local and global aspects of music, health and wellbeing. We aim to work with scholars, researchers and practitioners from different fields related to music therapy while we try to create the conditions for healthy and academically robust debates. An open, yet critical, stance towards diverse, even conflicting, views, as well as a huge amount of learning and re-learning (Tsiris et al. 2016), is needed for the accomplishment of this vision. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Approaches' editorial team members, the reviewers and, most importantly, the authors for promoting this vision within the journal. Many of our colleagues have served for several years as editorial team memberssome since the journal's establishment in 2008. We recently introduced a five-year pattern which means that some of our current team members will be stepping down at the end of this year. We express our sincere appreciation for their hard work and commitment over the past years. Their role has been vital for the growth of Approaches. Our thanks also go to the past and current sponsors of Approaches. This edition begins with a special feature entitled Music Therapy: A Profession for the Future.

This case study looks at how one family experienced the musical and interactive tang ible REFLECT... more This case study looks at how one family experienced the musical and interactive tang ible REFLECT, which was developed for the RHYME project (www.rhyme. no). One of the aims of RHYME is to develop resources that have the potential to promote collaboration among family members when a child has disabilities. Through processes related to health musicking (Bonde, 2011; Stensæth & Næss, 2013; Stige, 2012), the RHYME project fosters music activities that can enhance the quality of life within the family. REFLECT, which is a mobile and wireless interactive tang ible installation, offers the players possibilities to select and play with music they know and to play together with others, and thereby reflect on their (inter) actions (Andersson, Cappelen & Olofsson, 2014). It consists of several interactive tangibles of different sizes that look like toys of different shapes, some of which evoke animals and/or flowers. One of the tangibles is a lumber-like soft thing that one can play with on t...

Music and Public Health, 2018

Public health research states that we have never been lonelier and more socially isolated than to... more Public health research states that we have never been lonelier and more socially isolated than today. The same research calls for activities and non-medical interventions that can provide people with new ways of coping and give them a sense of pleasure and mastery. This essay asks: What are the potential connections between isolation and musical participation? Can music activities become a resource for avoiding isolation and promoting participation instead? The essay firstly elaborates upon notions like social isolation, loneliness and participation. Then it suggests a perspective on music as participation. The essay refers to Norwegian research projects in the child welfare system where music is used to promote participation among vulnerable children and adolescents. This author argues that music is as a powerful and valuable (yet still a somewhat hidden) means for participation, one that is both practical and has few negative side effects. Music therapy research is employed to examine in what ways and to what extent music activities might promote health and cultivate local democratic micro-cultures with a positive social ripple effect.

Innhold: Forord. - Even Ruud 70 ar / Gro Trondalen. - En nestor i musikkterapi fyller ar: Even Ru... more Innhold: Forord. - Even Ruud 70 ar / Gro Trondalen. - En nestor i musikkterapi fyller ar: Even Ruud 60 ar / Gro Trondalen. - Mannen som visste a svare pa hundreogfemtitusenkronerssporsmalet. Om Even Ruud som fagstrateg og fagperson / Brynjulf Stige. - Musikkpedagogen Even Ruud / Harald Jorgensen. - Hilsen / Bente Almas, Rita Strand Frisk og Tom Naess. - Kva kan musikkterapi vere? / Brynjulf Stige. - «Nye handlemuligheter» gjennom handling? / Karette Stensaeth. - Musik og menneske. Om en teoretisk musikforstaelsesmodel i Even Ruuds taenkning og om dens forhold til musikvidenskaben / Lars Ole Bonde. - Musikkterapi og like handlemuligheter: Med rettighetsperspektiv pa agendaen / Randi Rolvsjord. - Musikkterapien som lydspor i livet. Even Ruuds tekster som inspirasjon til feltet musikkterapi for barn og unge / Viggo Kruger. - Nar musikk skaper nye bevegelsesmuligheter for traumatiserte barn / Unni Tanum Johns. - Doing, being, becoming – Profesjonelle musikere i musikkterapiens grenselan...

Journal of Music Therapy, 2021

Positive effects of music therapy for people with dementia and their family carers are reported i... more Positive effects of music therapy for people with dementia and their family carers are reported in a growing number of studies. However, small sample sizes or low recruitment rates often limit the success of these research studies. More adequately powered evidence-based studies are needed to impact policy and funding in dementia care. This systematic review examined recruitment strategies in music therapy clinical trials involving people living with dementia and/or their family carers. Eligible studies described enrolment, consent, accrual, or recruitment methods as well as recruitment or consent rates. Thirty studies with a total of 1,192 participants were included. Recruitment and conversion rates in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) (14 studies) were substantially higher than in community-based studies (16 studies). Whereas studies in RACFs most commonly recruited participants through staff approaching residents face-to-face or conversing with residents’ legal guardians, c...

Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy

The word ‘therapy’ is known to be a challenging one in music therapy. This discourse-oriented stu... more The word ‘therapy’ is known to be a challenging one in music therapy. This discourse-oriented study asks: how do a group of adolescents and their music therapists in the child welfare services relate to the word ‘therapy,’ and how can music therapy as a profession get round problems connected to the use of it? The data consists of case study material from collaborative interviews of six Norwegian adolescents in out-of-home care and their music therapists in the first author’s ongoing PhD study. Systematic text condensation is used to collect relevant meaning-bearing citations for further discussion and in-depth reflection. The findings show that the word ‘therapy’ creates profoundly negative associations among the informants. In fact, it creates so many difficulties that we actually question if ‘music therapy’ is a fitting label at all. However, because it seems unlikely and even unwise to develop new labels of the well-established ‘music therapy,’ we suggest starting the process of...

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Qualitative systematic reviews, or qualitative evidence syntheses (QES), are increasingly used in... more Qualitative systematic reviews, or qualitative evidence syntheses (QES), are increasingly used in health settings to guide the development of practice and policy. Thematic synthesis is one of the most well-developed approaches used for QES, however there are limited worked examples describing how to apply the steps of analysis in the literature. This paper describes the processes and decisions undertaken in a qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis from the perspective of a novice researcher. The described review aimed to explore the shared musical experiences of people living with dementia and their family care partners across a range of settings. We found that shared musical activities fostered experiences of connection and wellbeing for people living with dementia and their family care partners. This was demonstrated with moderate-high confidence through six themes, and our findings informed the development of the Contextual Connection Model of Health Musicking. In p...

Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 2020

Purpose: Interest in the health relevance of music has been growing rapidly, yet few studies have... more Purpose: Interest in the health relevance of music has been growing rapidly, yet few studies have addressed the protective role of music for music professionals themselves. In the current study, we investigated music professionals' (music teachers, music therapists, musicians and academics) health, particularly their uses of music as a resource for their psychological health. Design: An online survey (N = 504) for music professionals was conducted across four Nordic countries. Participants responded to questions on music as a resource for psychological health and assessed their general levels of health and health behaviors. Their self-reported health was compared to similar prior data from the general Danish population (N = 14,022). Findings: Music professionals demonstrated high levels of self-reported health and health behaviors and approved of the idea of music as a resource for their psychological health. The most important psychological function of music for them was that music provided affective experiences. Music also provided feelings of belonging and supported mood regulation, but did not really offer relaxation or help to concentrate. Music teachers and therapists reported significantly higher use of music as a personal resource for psychological health than musicians and academics. Value: The results provide new insights into music playing a dual role-professional and personal resource-for different types of music professionals. The findings have relevance for how to address music in the training of musicians and create grounds for dialogue about the role of music for music professionals in comparison to laymen.

Dette verket omfattes av bestemmelsene i Lov om opphavsretten til åndsverk m.v. av 1961. Verket u... more Dette verket omfattes av bestemmelsene i Lov om opphavsretten til åndsverk m.v. av 1961. Verket utgis Open Access under betingelsene i Creative Commons-lisensen CC-BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Denne tillater tredjepart å kopiere, distribuere og spre verket i hvilket som helst medium eller format, og å remixe, endre, og bygge videre på materialet til et hvilket som helst formål, inkludert kommersielle, under betingelse av at korrekt kreditering og en lenke til lisensen er oppgitt, og at man indikerer om endringer er blitt gjort. Tredjepart kan gjøre dette på enhver rimelig måte, men uten at det kan forstås slik at lisensgiver bifaller tredjepart eller tredjeparts bruk av verket. Boka er utgitt med støtte fra Høgskolen i Innlandet, OsloMet-storbyuniversitetet, Norges musikkhøgskole, Steinerhøyskolen, Universitetet i Bergen og Universitetet i Oslo.

Innhold: English abstracts. - Redaktorenes forord. - Forord / Jon-Roar Bjorkvold. - Barn, musik o... more Innhold: English abstracts. - Redaktorenes forord. - Forord / Jon-Roar Bjorkvold. - Barn, musik och halsa : om sjalvutveckling och kanslohantering / Bjorn Wrangsjo & Gro Trondalen. - Vitalitetsformer i musikk / Unni Tanum Johns. - Att spela trumma for sitt ofodda barn : och hvad detta kan bety for barnets valbefinnande och halsa / Maria Bovin de Labbe. - "Mellom liv og drom." : om vuggesangens helsefilosofiske betydning / Lisa Bonnar. - Et specialdesignet musikkoncepts betydning og effekt (for generel velbefindende og helsefremme hos born med kraeft i kemoterapi) / Ilan Sanfi. - "Da er jeg liksom glad..." : om musikk og helse i barns hverdagslige omgang med musikk / Ingeborg Lunde Vestad. - Storycomposing as method in music therapy : a colloborative experiment with a young co-researcher / Hanna Hakomaki. - Bidrag til fagterminologi for en relasjonell musikkestetikk / Tony Valberg. - Dialogue on intersubjectivity : interview with Stein Braten and Colwyn Trevarthen...

Vignette 1: When Petronella and her ‘close other’1 enter the semi lit room, the only thing they s... more Vignette 1: When Petronella and her ‘close other’1 enter the semi lit room, the only thing they see is the big octopus-like pillow known as the WAVE carpet, which is interactive and musical and has a built-in camera and microphone as well as capacities for vibration and audio. Petronella lies down on the WAVE carpet while her close other sits beside it, next to her. Soon, Petronella finds the particular arm of the WAVE carpet that houses the microphone. She picks it up and says ‘Say Europe’ into it. When her close other bends the sensor of another arm of the WAVE, they both hear the carpet say ‘Europe!’ in a voice that is similar to Petronella’s but somewhat distorted and different as well. Petronella finds this amusing and says other words into the microphone, all of which the WAVE carpet repeats back to her. However, when Petronella eventually says ‘Say Taco!’ into the microphone, the WAVE says ‘Europe!’ instead. Petronella is surprised, then laughs. Her close other laughs too.

In music pedagogy, as well as in music therapy, the element of improvisation and free playing is ... more In music pedagogy, as well as in music therapy, the element of improvisation and free playing is often vital to empower and motivate. This article discusses Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of dialogue in such settings by asking what implications it could have on our understanding of musical improvisation in asymmetric relations (e.g. teacher/therapist – pupil/client). It suggests that it may be perceived as a complex social and relational event that is on the border, or, to borrow the words of Bakhtin (1981: 293) “half someone else’s” that becomes one’s own when it is populated with one’s own accent and adapted to one’s own semantic and expressive intention. This process, what is labelled musical dialoguing1, remains influenceable and unfinalised, and contains not just consensus and harmony but also dissonances and misunderstandings. Also, both players negotiate and participate actively while listening openly and aesthetically to the voice of the other while at the same time doubting his/...

Vignett Når musikkterapeutane på måndagens skolekor spør om det er nokon av elevane som vil komme... more Vignett Når musikkterapeutane på måndagens skolekor spør om det er nokon av elevane som vil komme fram på scena og synge solo på songen ”Så fint det er”, rekkjer Petter opp handa og seier ”Jeg... Jeg vil!”1 Petter går fram mot scenekanten og tar imot mikrofonen som blir gitt han, stiller seg opp føre heile koret med ca 100 kjente ansikt – smiler mot dei, og gjer seg klar. Ein av musikkterapeutane spelar eit forspel på piano, akkompagnert av ei på bass og ei på tverrfløyte. Petter tar sats, ser mot publikum og kjem riktig inn på verset. Han syng i veg, riktig nok med litt eigenarta uttale av orda, men med fast mine, og med mot , engasjement og stor begeistring: ”Så fint det er – så fint det er, å høre gjøk og trost og stær – og kjenne nå er våren her – så fint det eeer!” Alle i koret som han kjenner, hans publikum, klappar og smiler tilbake til Petter når songen tonar ut og han beveger seg stolt ned igjen på plassen sin.

Innhold: Utgivers forord. - Forord. - A sette seg selv i spill: Om ansvar, moral, etikk og utford... more Innhold: Utgivers forord. - Forord. - A sette seg selv i spill: Om ansvar, moral, etikk og utfordringer i motet med barn med multifunksjonshemming / Turid Horgen. - Kroppslig samspill i musikkterapi / Kjersti Johansson. - Improvisasjon i et dialogisk kommunikasjonsperspektiv / Gro E. Hallan Tonsberg. - Felles aktivitet som laeringsarena / Anne Toro Eggen. - Video som observasjons- og analyseverktoy: A se med «mikroskop» / Signe Marie Galaasen. - Supervision af novicemusikterapeuter i arbejde med born med betydelige og varige funktionsnedsaettelser / Ulla Holck. - «A spele for livet med hjartet i halsen»: Om helse, Bakhtinsk dialog og eksistensielle overtonar i musikkterapi med barn med multifunksjonshemming / Karette Stensaeth. - Forfatterne

Welcome to the first 2017 edition of Approaches! Last year was dedicated to two special issues: M... more Welcome to the first 2017 edition of Approaches! Last year was dedicated to two special issues: Music, Drama, Dance Movement and Art Therapy: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Karkou 2016) and Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Music Therapy and Special Music Education (Habron 2016). The interdisciplinary focus of these two special issues highlights the vision of Approaches: to provide diverse perspectives on music therapy practice, profession and discipline by fostering polyphonic dialogues and by linking local and global aspects of music, health and wellbeing. We aim to work with scholars, researchers and practitioners from different fields related to music therapy while we try to create the conditions for healthy and academically robust debates. An open, yet critical, stance towards diverse, even conflicting, views, as well as a huge amount of learning and re-learning (Tsiris et al. 2016), is needed for the accomplishment of this vision. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Approaches' editorial team members, the reviewers and, most importantly, the authors for promoting this vision within the journal. Many of our colleagues have served for several years as editorial team memberssome since the journal's establishment in 2008. We recently introduced a five-year pattern which means that some of our current team members will be stepping down at the end of this year. We express our sincere appreciation for their hard work and commitment over the past years. Their role has been vital for the growth of Approaches. Our thanks also go to the past and current sponsors of Approaches. This edition begins with a special feature entitled Music Therapy: A Profession for the Future.

This case study looks at how one family experienced the musical and interactive tang ible REFLECT... more This case study looks at how one family experienced the musical and interactive tang ible REFLECT, which was developed for the RHYME project (www.rhyme. no). One of the aims of RHYME is to develop resources that have the potential to promote collaboration among family members when a child has disabilities. Through processes related to health musicking (Bonde, 2011; Stensæth & Næss, 2013; Stige, 2012), the RHYME project fosters music activities that can enhance the quality of life within the family. REFLECT, which is a mobile and wireless interactive tang ible installation, offers the players possibilities to select and play with music they know and to play together with others, and thereby reflect on their (inter) actions (Andersson, Cappelen & Olofsson, 2014). It consists of several interactive tangibles of different sizes that look like toys of different shapes, some of which evoke animals and/or flowers. One of the tangibles is a lumber-like soft thing that one can play with on t...

Music and Public Health, 2018

Public health research states that we have never been lonelier and more socially isolated than to... more Public health research states that we have never been lonelier and more socially isolated than today. The same research calls for activities and non-medical interventions that can provide people with new ways of coping and give them a sense of pleasure and mastery. This essay asks: What are the potential connections between isolation and musical participation? Can music activities become a resource for avoiding isolation and promoting participation instead? The essay firstly elaborates upon notions like social isolation, loneliness and participation. Then it suggests a perspective on music as participation. The essay refers to Norwegian research projects in the child welfare system where music is used to promote participation among vulnerable children and adolescents. This author argues that music is as a powerful and valuable (yet still a somewhat hidden) means for participation, one that is both practical and has few negative side effects. Music therapy research is employed to examine in what ways and to what extent music activities might promote health and cultivate local democratic micro-cultures with a positive social ripple effect.

Innhold: Forord. - Even Ruud 70 ar / Gro Trondalen. - En nestor i musikkterapi fyller ar: Even Ru... more Innhold: Forord. - Even Ruud 70 ar / Gro Trondalen. - En nestor i musikkterapi fyller ar: Even Ruud 60 ar / Gro Trondalen. - Mannen som visste a svare pa hundreogfemtitusenkronerssporsmalet. Om Even Ruud som fagstrateg og fagperson / Brynjulf Stige. - Musikkpedagogen Even Ruud / Harald Jorgensen. - Hilsen / Bente Almas, Rita Strand Frisk og Tom Naess. - Kva kan musikkterapi vere? / Brynjulf Stige. - «Nye handlemuligheter» gjennom handling? / Karette Stensaeth. - Musik og menneske. Om en teoretisk musikforstaelsesmodel i Even Ruuds taenkning og om dens forhold til musikvidenskaben / Lars Ole Bonde. - Musikkterapi og like handlemuligheter: Med rettighetsperspektiv pa agendaen / Randi Rolvsjord. - Musikkterapien som lydspor i livet. Even Ruuds tekster som inspirasjon til feltet musikkterapi for barn og unge / Viggo Kruger. - Nar musikk skaper nye bevegelsesmuligheter for traumatiserte barn / Unni Tanum Johns. - Doing, being, becoming – Profesjonelle musikere i musikkterapiens grenselan...

Journal of Music Therapy, 2021

Positive effects of music therapy for people with dementia and their family carers are reported i... more Positive effects of music therapy for people with dementia and their family carers are reported in a growing number of studies. However, small sample sizes or low recruitment rates often limit the success of these research studies. More adequately powered evidence-based studies are needed to impact policy and funding in dementia care. This systematic review examined recruitment strategies in music therapy clinical trials involving people living with dementia and/or their family carers. Eligible studies described enrolment, consent, accrual, or recruitment methods as well as recruitment or consent rates. Thirty studies with a total of 1,192 participants were included. Recruitment and conversion rates in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) (14 studies) were substantially higher than in community-based studies (16 studies). Whereas studies in RACFs most commonly recruited participants through staff approaching residents face-to-face or conversing with residents’ legal guardians, c...