Open AccessThe Influence of the Creative Class
Author(s) -
Carolyn Kenny
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v5i2.221
Subject(s) - the arts , theme (computing) , psychology , class (philosophy) , function (biology) , aesthetics , visual arts , psychoanalysis , sociology , psychotherapist , social psychology , art , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , evolutionary biology , biology , operating system
Last week I heard an interview with the American playwright Edward Albee. His award-winning play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, is enjoying a second time around on the New York stage. In the course of the interview, Albee made a comment that confirmed my own belief about the arts. He said: "To put us in greater contact with our possibilities. . . this is the function of art." This idea of "possibilities" has always shaped the core of my beliefs about the nature of Music Therapy. It's a recurring theme. And in the increasingly inhibited parameters of clinical notions, represented by the likes of evidence-based decision making under the influence of the Cochrane Collaboration, it's good to remember the art of our work.