Collaborating Together: Finding the Emergent and Disruptive In and Between the Fields of Music Therapy and Medical Ethnomusicology

Jane is course director for the Master of Child Play Therapy at Deakin University. She was formerly head of training in music therapy at The University of Queensland (1993-200) and at the University of Limerick (2000-2014) where she was director of the Music & Health Research Group. She is the inaugural President of the International Association for Music & Medicine.

Gregory Barz is a medical ethnomusicologist who has engaged field research in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania. He received the PhD from Brown University and the MA from the University of Chicago.A former opera singer, Barz is professor of ethnomusicology and anthropology at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. He was recently named the Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University.His latest book is a co-edited volume titled The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing in Music and the Arts, published by Oxford University Press. His forthcoming co-edited volume, Queering the Field: Ethnomusicology and the Queer Gaze, will be published with Oxford. His monograph, Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda (2006) applies the central tenets of medical ethnomusicology to a study of HIV prevention in East Africa. His book, Music in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture was also published by Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of two editions of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (Oxford).He has produced 4 compact discs and a documentary film and received a Grammy nomination in the Best Traditional World Music category as producer of the Smithsonian Folkways CD, Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Dr. Bussakorn Binson is a Music Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of York in the UK.She has been Thailand’s sole representative to the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) since 1999 and has been invited to lead Thai music workshops in various countries. She is one of the founding members of the International Association of Music and Medicine and is on its journal’s editorial board.She received SAGE’s Best Paper Award in 2012 for her music therapy research titled "Effects of Music Intervention on Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis in the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Hospitals" Her current research focuses on the effect of music intervention for elderly cancer patients under going Chemotherapy.