Response to Simon Frith's Essay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18965292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Ansdell (0000-0002-2215-3273, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-72 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0803-9828 • E-ISSN: 1944-8260 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08098130409478099 |
| OpenAlex | W2053589616 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
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 with connotations, meanings and messages, possibilities and, potentially, dangers. Recent theory in music therapy (Stige, 2002; Ruud, 1998) has emphasized this ‘culture-centered’ understanding - where music’s social powers are perhaps transcendence enough. Another theme in Frith’s essay has similarly dogged music therapy: the relation between emotion and music. Following discrepancies in philosophy and psychology of music (as well as in the various branches of music therapy theory itself) music therapists have never really been sure whether it is really possible to be angry ‘in music’ – or, if so, if this is a good thing or not. Simon Frith’s essay has got me thinking about these themes again, so what follows are some notes on the relationships between music, noise
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |