An ethnographic related research on community music therapy practice in Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370096
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Meiji Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: MIYAKE Hiroko 明治学院大学, 文学部, 研究員 (40599437)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 音楽療法 / コミュニティ音楽療法 / 社会包摂 / 文化創造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Community music therapy is a practice and idea of music therapy aimed at bringing the change in the community as a whole through facilitating music activities in the relationships with the family, friends and communities where the clients involved in. Community music therapy in Japan and those in Western societies seem to be differ in terms of social-cultural policy background and purpose, relations between individuals and groups in the community, and so on. While community music therapy in Japan is not necessarily directly linked to rights advocacy of the people facing social exclusion, the process of dialogue and transformation of diverse participants through music activities involve a potential to contribute to the creation of new cultures and social values.

Free Research Field

音楽療法