The Library
I am going through things here at home during my snow week. I am taking an inventory of my therapy stuff and am organizing things a bit to make room for the stuff coming home during renovation year at work. It has been interesting to see all of the stuff that I have tucked away over the years.
I am probably close to being a hoarder - I blame the generations before me that were my models, depression-era grandparents who never threw anything away, and a mother that has inherited that tendency as well.
Anyway, one of the the things that I am taking some time to do is to catalog my music therapy library. I have lots of books about music therapy, about human development, and about philosophy. These are the result of my recent education addiction, something I've had to give up cold turkey since I can no longer afford to throw money away on a degree that I will never actually earn, but I digress. I am fortunate to have an original copy of Music In Therapy, edited by none other than E. Thayer Gaston himself. I have lots of your typical introduction to music therapy texts, several songwriting technique texts, and lots of things about music therapy and research. These books are fascinating to me, and I want to delve into rereading them soon. Maybe I'll do something like reading one chapter per evening before I go to bed. I wonder if I will be able to follow through on that idea. Hmmm. Maybe I need an incentive - read a bit and then have a treat? Then watch Fringe? Then call family members? We shall see.
I am cataloging these texts in an effort to identify what I already have in my library and to use the books for my interns. I think (at least, in my experience as a student) that academicians often have their favorite authors and music therapy models and rarely stray from the texts and authors that they know well. I have made it a goal to learn about authors from other philosophical backgrounds than those of myself or my professors. I especially like the writings of music therapists from Europe and the UK. Their prose seems to resonate with me in a way that Standley and Bruscia and Thaut just didn't quite reach. Hence the extensive library.
What are your favorite texts? Who were your music therapy models? Did anyone write something that really made you look at your music therapy practice a bit differently?
I am probably close to being a hoarder - I blame the generations before me that were my models, depression-era grandparents who never threw anything away, and a mother that has inherited that tendency as well.
Anyway, one of the the things that I am taking some time to do is to catalog my music therapy library. I have lots of books about music therapy, about human development, and about philosophy. These are the result of my recent education addiction, something I've had to give up cold turkey since I can no longer afford to throw money away on a degree that I will never actually earn, but I digress. I am fortunate to have an original copy of Music In Therapy, edited by none other than E. Thayer Gaston himself. I have lots of your typical introduction to music therapy texts, several songwriting technique texts, and lots of things about music therapy and research. These books are fascinating to me, and I want to delve into rereading them soon. Maybe I'll do something like reading one chapter per evening before I go to bed. I wonder if I will be able to follow through on that idea. Hmmm. Maybe I need an incentive - read a bit and then have a treat? Then watch Fringe? Then call family members? We shall see.
I am cataloging these texts in an effort to identify what I already have in my library and to use the books for my interns. I think (at least, in my experience as a student) that academicians often have their favorite authors and music therapy models and rarely stray from the texts and authors that they know well. I have made it a goal to learn about authors from other philosophical backgrounds than those of myself or my professors. I especially like the writings of music therapists from Europe and the UK. Their prose seems to resonate with me in a way that Standley and Bruscia and Thaut just didn't quite reach. Hence the extensive library.
What are your favorite texts? Who were your music therapy models? Did anyone write something that really made you look at your music therapy practice a bit differently?
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