Anger, Joy and Hope: Reflections of a Revolutionary. An Interview with Nigel Osborne.

Autor/innen

  • Alpha Woodward Canadian Association of Music Therapy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v12i1.641

Schlagworte:

music therapy, social action, Nigel Osborne

Abstract

Leslie Bunt's Introduction to the interview:

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this text written by music therapy colleague Alpha Woodward. For quite some time Alpha and I have been exploring how to communicate to the international music therapy community through ‘Voices’ something of the essence of the work of a quite remarkable man, Nigel Osborne.  Alpha has provided a creative solution to this challenge by interweaving excerpts of an interview with Nigel within the context of a case study exploring the background and evolution of the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar. As Alpha points out in her text Nigel Osborne is a great friend and ambassador of music therapy, although not ‘formally trained’ as a music therapist.  His work touches on so much that is fundamental to the work of music therapists and as he says ‘enlivening children through song.’  But Nigel goes further in combining this passion for music with his burning desire for social justice and action.  

Autor/innen-Biografie

Alpha Woodward, Canadian Association of Music Therapy

Part-time faculty Department of Creative Arts Therapies Concordia University Montreal, Quebec Canada.Alpha Woodward has sixteen years of clinical experience and has served as professional practice leader for music therapy at Providence Health Care in Vancouver, B.C. In 2004 she took up a position as Team Leader and Senior Music Therapist at the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina to work with children and youth traumatized by the armed conflict.  After returning to Canada in 2008, she enrolled as a full time doctoral student in the Leadership and Change program at Antioch University, U.S.A. where her focus is on research, teaching and writing about the arts and social change in populations affected by war or inter-cultural conflict.  She is currently also on the faculty in the music therapy option of the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2007 Alpha received the Distinguished Alumni Award at Capilano University for her leadership and advocacy for music therapy at home and abroad.

Veröffentlicht

2012-02-24

Zitationsvorschlag

Woodward, A. (2012). Anger, Joy and Hope: Reflections of a Revolutionary. An Interview with Nigel Osborne. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v12i1.641

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