Exploring a Perspective on the Nature of Music and Health as they Relate to the Bonny Method: A Response to Summer’s (1992) Music: The Aesthetic Elixir

Authors

  • Brian Abrams Montclair State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v10i3.499

Abstract

This essay provides a response to the retrospective posting of Lisa Summer's article Music: The Aesthetic Elixir in the present issue of Voices. The response is based upon an exploratory, theoretical “lens” concerning a way of understanding music both as a way of being together aesthetically in time, and as a dimension of health. This understanding of music is subsequently applied to an expansion upon Summer's perspectives on the Bonny Method.

Author Biography

Brian Abrams, Montclair State University

BRIAN ABRAMS, Ph.D., MT-BC, LPC, LCAT, FAMI, Associate Professor of Music Music Therapy - Undergraduate Coordinator, Montclaire State University. Abrams has been a music therapist since 1995, with clinical experience involving a wide range of populations. He completed undergraduate studies at Vassar College and SUNY New Paltz, and graduate studies at Temple University. He served on the faculty at Utah State University from 2001-2004, and at Immaculata University from 2004-2008. He has published and presented internationally on a wide range of topics such as music therapy in cancer care, music psychotherapy, and music therapy research. Served as President of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association (2007-2009).

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Published

2010-10-18

How to Cite

Abrams, B. (2010). Exploring a Perspective on the Nature of Music and Health as they Relate to the Bonny Method: A Response to Summer’s (1992) Music: The Aesthetic Elixir. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v10i3.499

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2010): Special Commemorative Issue on the Life and Work of Helen Bonny

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Essays

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