Gary Ansdell
Biographic Data
| ID | 114042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Ansdell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansdell |
| SIGNATURE | ANSDELL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2215-3273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Music therapy research during a pandemic
This article describes how a group of music therapists and a music sociologist working on the AHRC-funded research project Care for Music responded to the situation they found themselves during the 2020–21 COVID pandemic, both in terms of their practice and the ongoing research project they shared. In particular, the article outlines how the challenging situation has produced interesting new practical, methodological and theoretical perspectives …
Showing the way, or getting in the way? Discussing power, influence and intervention in contemporary musical-social practices
This article presents a broad discussion of power and influence within contemporary participatory music practices in relation to practices of intervention . The discussion is presented through the respective experience and professional perspectives of music therapy, music education and community music – each illustrated by current practice examples and their accompanying dilemmas; and covering both local and international projects. In a shared cl…
Music in action
In this article we draw on a recent, six-year ethnographic study of community music therapy and mental health to highlight strategies and techniques for documenting music's role in processes of change. We place these strategies in dialogue with the ethnographic work on arts and crafts by Paul Atkinson. In tandem with Atkinson, we propose a 'slow' approach focused on micro-processes of musical/para-musical bricolage whereby things are made and tra…
Revisiting ‘Community music therapy and the winds of change’ (2002)
This article contains my article ‘Community music therapy and the winds of change’, which was written twelve years ago. It also contains my reflection on this article. In this I explore some of the circumstances in the United Kingdom that prompted writing the original article, and consider these in relation to subsequent developments of community music therapy (CoMT) as an international movement. I also evaluate what I think I got wrong and right…
From “This F***ing life” to “that's better” … in four minutes
This article presents the findings of a preliminary interdisciplinary research project instigated by a group of three music therapists, a music psychologist and a psychiatrist. The group shared a professional and academic interest in music therapy's seeming ability to help patients experiencing severe affect dysregulation as a result of psychotic states to effectively modulate affect in a creative way within a surprisingly short time-span.The stu…
Response to Simon Frith's Essay
is too magical to be ‘of this world’. Another part of me agrees with the critique of the essentialism of this position – which ‘naturalises’ music’s social reality, takes it away from real people in real places. A socio-cultural perspective suggests that it’s not ‘music-in-itself’ which music therapists work with; but rather, music (and musicing) in context – which is to say music(ing) which is somewhere, someone’s, for something, and replete wit…
The Stories We Tell
This essay had its origin in a paper I gave at the World Congress of Music Therapy in Washington, November 1999. In it I offer some meta–theoretical reflections on the various relationships between practice, discourse and theory in music therapy. I suggest that music therapy is increasingly moving towards a meta–theoretical perspective. This accepts that music therapy is made, not found; that we use theoretical narratives pragmatically; that ther…
The Stories We Tell
This essay had its origin in a paper I gave at the World Congress of Music Therapy in Washington, November 1999. In it I offer some meta–theoretical reflections on the various relationships between practice, discourse and theory in music therapy. I suggest that music therapy is increasingly moving towards a meta–theoretical perspective. This accepts that music therapy is made, not found; that we use theoretical narratives pragmatically; that ther…
Music in action
In this article we draw on a recent, six-year ethnographic study of community music therapy and mental health to highlight strategies and techniques for documenting music's role in processes of change. We place these strategies in dialogue with the ethnographic work on arts and crafts by Paul Atkinson. In tandem with Atkinson, we propose a 'slow' approach focused on micro-processes of musical/para-musical bricolage whereby things are made and tra…
The Stories We Tell
This essay had its origin in a paper I gave at the World Congress of Music Therapy in Washington, November 1999. In it I offer some meta–theoretical reflections on the various relationships between practice, discourse and theory in music therapy. I suggest that music therapy is increasingly moving towards a meta–theoretical perspective. This accepts that music therapy is made, not found; that we use theoretical narratives pragmatically; that ther…
Response to Simon Frith's Essay
is too magical to be ‘of this world’. Another part of me agrees with the critique of the essentialism of this position – which ‘naturalises’ music’s social reality, takes it away from real people in real places. A socio-cultural perspective suggests that it’s not ‘music-in-itself’ which music therapists work with; but rather, music (and musicing) in context – which is to say music(ing) which is somewhere, someone’s, for something, and replete wit…
From “This F***ing life” to “that's better” … in four minutes
This article presents the findings of a preliminary interdisciplinary research project instigated by a group of three music therapists, a music psychologist and a psychiatrist. The group shared a professional and academic interest in music therapy's seeming ability to help patients experiencing severe affect dysregulation as a result of psychotic states to effectively modulate affect in a creative way within a surprisingly short time-span.The stu…
Revisiting ‘Community music therapy and the winds of change’ (2002)
This article contains my article ‘Community music therapy and the winds of change’, which was written twelve years ago. It also contains my reflection on this article. In this I explore some of the circumstances in the United Kingdom that prompted writing the original article, and consider these in relation to subsequent developments of community music therapy (CoMT) as an international movement. I also evaluate what I think I got wrong and right…
Music in action
In this article we draw on a recent, six-year ethnographic study of community music therapy and mental health to highlight strategies and techniques for documenting music's role in processes of change. We place these strategies in dialogue with the ethnographic work on arts and crafts by Paul Atkinson. In tandem with Atkinson, we propose a 'slow' approach focused on micro-processes of musical/para-musical bricolage whereby things are made and tra…
Showing the way, or getting in the way? Discussing power, influence and intervention in contemporary musical-social practices
This article presents a broad discussion of power and influence within contemporary participatory music practices in relation to practices of intervention . The discussion is presented through the respective experience and professional perspectives of music therapy, music education and community music – each illustrated by current practice examples and their accompanying dilemmas; and covering both local and international projects. In a shared cl…
Music therapy research during a pandemic
This article describes how a group of music therapists and a music sociologist working on the AHRC-funded research project Care for Music responded to the situation they found themselves during the 2020–21 COVID pandemic, both in terms of their practice and the ongoing research project they shared. In particular, the article outlines how the challenging situation has produced interesting new practical, methodological and theoretical perspectives …
Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Music Therapy and Health (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Music therapy (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)