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Community music therapy

A whole new discourse labeled "community music therapy" is gradually evolving in the field of music therapy. Community music therapy is a way of doing and thinking about music therapy where the larger cultural, institutional and social context is taken into consideration. The approach involves an awareness of the system music therapists are working within, it means that music therapy is not only directed towards the individual, but often aimed at changing the system that is sometimes part of the situation of the client. Researching the history of music therapy may reveal that this idea is not totally new. In many countries, there has been a tradition either for therapists working within community mental health systems, especially from the nineteen seventies on in the United States and many European countries. In Great Britain, there has also been a tradition among musicians to take their art back to the community and give performances as a sort of social service. This has been labeled "community music" (see Ansdell 2002). As Stige (2003: 124) also remarks, it may happen that this idea is not new at all. Examining the tradition of music therapy with a focus on musical healing in indigenous cultures will reveal that often, the whole community may be involved in the musical rituals connected with healing (see Gouk 2000). Some music therapists may then look for what is new in this development, and perhaps only see the links to traditional practice of music therapy. Others may notice how this community oriented approach is changing not only the goals, vocabulary or language of doing music therapy, but also the actual practice. An