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'This is a book which challenges traditional boundaries and definitions of music therapy. It takes seriously how culture informs our ways of perceiving therapeutic needs, and seeks to develop new perspectives, role identities and ways of doing music therapy. It is essential reading for the socially engaged music therapist.' - from the Foreword by Even Ruud

This text has consolidated the debate and further articulated the discourse. I believe it is an important contribution to the development of music therapy. -- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy This is a book which challenges traditional boundaries and definitions of music therapy. It takes seriously how culture informs our ways of perceiving therapeutic needs, and seeks to develop new perspectives, role identities and ways of doing music therapy. It is essential reading for the socially engaged music therapist. -- from the Foreword by Even Ruud

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Mercedes Pavlicevic lives and works in South Africa, and is Director at the Music Therapy Programme at the University of Pretoria, and Researcher Associate at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London where she teaches the Master of Music Therapy Programme, and she has been involved in Community Music Therapy projects for the past six years. Gary Ansdell read music at Cambridge and trained as a music therapist at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre where he is now Head of Research, and at the Institute for Musiktherapie, Herdecke, Germany. He is the Editor of the British Journal of Music Therapy, an Honorary Research Fellow in Community Music Therapy at the University of Sheffield and former Research Fellow at City University, London.

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