Open AccessMusic Belongs to Everyone: Moments of Progress in Community Music Therapy with Musicians with Severe Disabilities
Author(s) -
Luca Tiszai
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v16i3.853
Subject(s) - music therapy , choir , context (archaeology) , politics , music education , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , visual arts , political science , history , art , psychotherapist , law , archaeology
The article describes novel and successful projects involving musicians with severe disabilities and adolescent music students. The Nádizumzuzum Orchestra consists of adult members of a nursing home. They are able to play music with a newly developed method called Consonate. The young musicians are students of the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School. This article presents the historical and socio-political background of the project to illustrate how music therapy grows from particular cultural and political circumstances of Hungary, and therefore takes a particular Hungarian form and flavour. The article also reflects on the wider context of the international research and practice of Community Music Therapy.