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标题：Invitation to Community Music Therapy Brynjulf
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作者：Stige ; Leif Edvard Aarø
期刊名称：Approaches : Music Therapy & Special Music Education
电子版ISSN：1791-9622
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：59-61
出版社：Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers
摘要：The world is in chaos. Science authors such as Steven Johnson and James Gleick describe how slime mould, ant colonies and ¨C the most famous ¨C butterflies flapping their tiny wings, have become examples in the science community of how unpredictable the world really is. Swarm behaviour, emergence and the butterfly effect are ideas that explore the sensitive interaction between smaller parts and greater wholes. They generate systemic notions of self-organisation, collective phenomena, de-centralisation and multiplicity, and they continue to challenge the status quo of science. In their book, Invitation to Community Music Therapy (Routlege, 2012), Stige and Aar. outline a movement in music therapy that illustrates the same kinds of ideas. They present a text that acts as an invitation to explore what they call a "sub-discipline" (p. 27) of music therapy built upon self organisation, collective phenomena, de-centralisation and multiplicity. It is a descriptive text, with the aim of being a pedagogic resource. Their stated intention is to create an accessible book, featuring research, theory, practice and profession. The outcome is a robust collaboration between two fields, reflecting the nature of the subject matter in the writing team itself. The combined perspectives of the Professor of Music Therapy in the University of Bergen (Stige) and the Chief Scientist at the Division of Mental Health in Norway's Institute of Public Health and Adjunct Professor of Social Psychology in the University of Bergen (Aar.) give the book a platform to ask big questions. My big question then, is, if they are inviting me as a reader to explore something, does this book tell me where to look for it, and does it make me want to go