Applied Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy and Ethnographically Informed Choral Education: The Merging of Disciplines during a Case Study in Hopevale, Northern Queensland

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Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Muriel Elsbeth. 2010. Applied Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy and Ethnographically Informed Choral Education: The Merging of Disciplines during a Case Study in Hopevale, Northern Queensland. In: Klisala Harrison; Elizabeth Mackinlay and Svanibor Pettan, eds. Applied Ethnomusicology: Historical and Contemporary Approaches. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 51-75. ISBN 9781443824255 [Book Section]

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This chapter will examine recent developments in the areas of applied ethnomusicology, music therapy theory and choral education. Shifts in academic thought have led to increased commonalities between the disciplines. I will demonstrate that these shifts in thinking and practice are stimulating interdisciplinary research. I begin by looking at quotations in recent publications in the areas of medical ethnomusicology, anthropology and music psychology in order to demonstrate that a definite shift in thinking has occurred which favours applied, ethnographically informed approaches. I then examine the concept of “culture centred music therapy” (Stige 2002) and how it overlaps with an applied ethnographically informed approach to choral education and facilitation, with a specific focus on music and healing practices. This I relate to my own ethnographically informed research as an applied, female, Dutch ethnomusicologist in the Australian Aboriginal
community of Hopevale, Northern Queensland between September 2004 and June 2005.

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Book Section

Additional Information:

The Author is a Visiting Fellow in the Music. Mind and Brain centre, Psychology Department and a research development officer in the Research Office, Goldsmiths.

Keywords:

Applied, Ethnomusicology, Music, Therapy, Psychology, Education, Aboriginal, Australia, Hopevale, Choir, Singing, Northern, Queensland.

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Psychology

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