Open AccessSounding the Authentic Self: Artistic Expressions of a Queer Music Therapist
Author(s) -
Colin Andrew Lee
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v19i3.2799
Subject(s) - queer , music therapy , clarity , identity (music) , aesthetics , psychology , autoethnography , courage , sociology , psychoanalysis , visual arts , art , psychotherapist , gender studies , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , theology
This piece is a queer autoethnographic cycle of words, poems, and improvisations that reflect my lived experience as a queer music therapist. The improvisations come from a two-day recording session held at the Maureen Forrester Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. By expressing my identity as a queer music therapist, I came to understand with greater clarity the therapeutic-creative process that was central to my work with clients. The music offered as part of my contribution to this queering music therapy special issue acknowledges the courage and peace needed to embrace my intersecting identities as a composer–music-therapist and a queer cisgender man.