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Groups in Music

Strategies from Music Therapy
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In recent years there has been increasing interest in the implementation of group music therapy. Literature to analyse, guide and further this practice is long overdue, so in this book Mercédès Pavlicevic develops a discourse for the music therapists, musicians and teachers who use music groups. By drawing on her own extensive experience, she provides a broad-based understanding of how groups function when music is introduced. Amongst other topics, she looks at the challenge of balancing individual and group needs, the development of 'group time' and the difficulty of dealing with group members who are reluctant to take part. With each chapter illustrated by clinical vignettes taken from a wide range of settings such as education, community work and health, Groups in Music provides a solid but varied framework from which to reflect on the experience and dynamic of group music therapy that will prove essential to all those involved in its practice.
Introduction - Groups in music and music in groups; 1. Forming groups and group forming; 2. Outside, inside and against sides - shifting alliances; 3. Individual and group needs - balancing acts; 4. Groups within groups; 5. Collective synchronies; 6. Working with chaos and creativity; 7. Addressing conflict and growing communities; 8. Group pulse, group flow - finding the groove; 9. Endings; 10. Agency, identity and group cohesion. References; Index.
I wish we had read Pavlicevic when we set up our Blues band - Information is easily accessed through a detailed Table of Contents and numbered sub-headings to allow the book to be read straight through or dipped into as a reference or instruction manual. A colleague has already found that my review copy has changed his approach and made him more ambitious bringing live music on to inner London psychiatric wards.
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