(Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1999, 1999) Angle, Karen; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education; Fowler, Leah
This project considers music's relationship to humanity. A perspective from the
informational basis of academic music therapy is interwoven with reflective theory about
music's healing capacity. The writer's music healing experiences as a professional
musician and apprentice to the music healing tradition of Indigenous South (Quechua) and
Central (Huichol) America guide the reflective theory. In this way, the writer desires to
integrate the Western academic and South/Central indigenous American understandings of
music therapy. Diverse genres are employed, including poetry, narrative, and academic
styles to invoke and relate different perspectives of the same understanding of music's
therapeutic and curative potential.