Toward a Sociology of Music Therapy: Musicking as a Cultural Immunogen

Abstract

Our current world circumstances have clearly converged two broad, health-related issues: the COVID-19 pandemic and the rightful highlighting of systemic social injustices. As a field, we are subsequently reexamining our practices, our educational processes, our biases, and our intentions as music therapists. We witness a need for both collective and individual change. We seek to promote health within contexts that either did not exist before or that we did not clearly attend to due to our limited awareness. In Toward a Sociology of Music Therapy: Musicking as a Cultural Immunogen, Even Ruud provides a contemporary, forward-thinking theoretical frame for music therapy, a field that...

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