Music therapy is an established profession that is recognized around the world. As a catalyst to promote health and wellbeing music therapy is both objective and explorative. The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy (QTMT) is a celebration of queer, trans, bisexual and gender
nonconforming identities and the spontaneous creativity that is at the heart of queer music-making. As an emerging approach in the 21st century QTMT challenges perspectives and narratives from ethnocentric and cisheteronormative traditions, that have dominated the field. Raising the essential
question of what it means to create queer and trans spaces in music therapy, this book presents an open discourse on the need for change and new beginnings. The therapists, musicians and artists included in this book collectively embody and represent a range of theory, research and practice that are
central to the essence and core values of QTMT.
This book does not shy away from the sociopolitical issues that challenge music therapy as a dominantly white, heteronormative, and cisgendered profession. Music as a therapeutic force has the potential to transform us in unique and
extraordinary ways. In this book music and words are presented as innovative equals in describing and evaluating QTMT as a newly defined approach.
1. James Robertson: Cantos Nuevos
2. Colin Andrew Lee, kei slaughter and Natasha Thomas: Prelude: Creating the Queer and Trans Music Therapy Space
Part One: Historical Contexts
3. Joseph F. Fidelibus: Starting Where We Were: Reflections on Music Therapy with Gay Men in the Time
of HIV/AIDS
4. Jeffrey H. Hatcher: The Circle is All: Music Therapy with Clients Living with HIV/AIDS and Complex Trauma
5. Colin Andrew Lee: Improvisations for Achilles: Individual Music Therapy with a Gay Man Living with HIV/AIDS
6. Gray Baldwin, Michele Forinash, Beth Robinson, Leah
Oswanski, and Amy Donnenwerth: The History of Team Rainbow
Part Two: Practice
7. Nicolas Joseph Sanabria: The Boy's Return Home: Musical Expression as Gender Expression in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy
8. Uri Aronoff, Avi Gilboa, and Judy Antebi: Critical Reflections on Queer
Thought, Music, and Therapy from a Multicultural and Multilayered Israeli Perspective
9. Bill Ahessy: Beyond the Rainbow: Health, Positive Aging and Music Therapy with LGBTQIA+ Older Adults.
10. Jae Swanson: Deconstructing the Clinical Hierarchy: Group Songwriting with LGBTQIA+ Youth of the
Global Majority
11. Julie Lipson: Trans and Nonbinary Community Vocal Workshops
12. Naomi Rowe: Intersectional Psychodynamic Music Therapy: Cultural Contexts and Best Practices with LGBTQIA+ and Neuroqueer Clients
13. Charles-Antoine Thibeault: Best Practices Acquired from an
Anti-Oppressive, Intermodal, Creative Arts Therapy Group for Trans and Nonbinary Youth
Part Three: Education and Supervision
14. Jane Edwards and Sue Baines: Queering our Pedagogy: Engaging Anti-Oppressive Practices as Learners and Teachers
15. Vee Gilman, Rachel Reed, ezequiel
bautista, Ashley Taylor Arnett, Freddy Perkins, and Susan Hadley: Playing in the Borderlands: The Transformative Possibilities of Queering Music Therapy Pedagogy
16. Naomi Ben-Aharon, Mason Gibson, and Tyler Reidy: Searching for Shore: Navigating Queer Identities as Student Music
Therapists
17. Jay Dressler and Jonathan Wilcoxen: Intersecting Identities: Navigating an Authentic Path for Queer Music Therapy Interns and Their Supervisors
18. Simon K. Gilbertson: Undefining Music Therapist
19. Brian T. Harris: Internalized Oppression in the Clinician: A Music
Therapy Framework for Self-Inquiry
Part Four: Theory, Philosophy, and Musicology
20. kei slaughter: Queer as Sacred: An Emerging S O U L F O L K Sounds Theoretical Approach
21. Maren Metell and Jessica Leza: Exploring Queer Theories as a Framework for Anti-Oppressive Music Therapy
Practice with Neurodivergent Children and Youth
22. Jessica Leza: Autistic LGBTQIA+ Identities in Music Therapy
23. Leif Weigel: Queering the Psyche Through Music
24. Zachary Kandler: Gay Guerilla: Julius Eastman and the Implications of His Music for Queer and Trans Music Therapy
25.
Jill Halstead and Thomas R. Hilder: Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros: the Queer Ear and Radical Care
26. Michael Viega: Queering the Sonic Episteme within Music Therapy using Digital Music Technologies
Part Five: Research
27. Michele Forinash and Natasha Thomas: Queer and
Trans Qualitative Music Therapy Research: Questions and Beliefs
28. Francis Myerscough: Becoming Phoenix Song: The Therapeutic Paradox of Liminal Existence in the Development of a Trans and Nonbinary Community Music Therapy Voicework Project
29. Patricia Zarate de Perez and Wenjun Wu:
Invisible Silence, Loud Music: The Transmusical Journey of a Jazz Musician
30. Ben Leske, Jennifer Bibb, and Katrina Skewes McFerran: Performing Difference: Exploring the Social World of Australia's first LGBTQIA+ Choir
31. Gray Baldwin and Michele Forinash: Queer and Trans Leadership in
Music Therapy: A Queerstory
32. Spencer Hardy: Unapologetically Me: Anti-Oppressive Community-Based Music Therapy for Transgender Youth
Part Six: Identity, Advocacy, and Activism
33. Elly Scrine: Beyond Rainbow Flags and Resilience: Challenging Neoliberal Diversity Politics Within
Queer and Trans Music Therapy
34. Renato M. Liboro and Colin Andrew Lee: Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Responsibility: Responding to an Inherent Call to Address the Needs of Queer and Trans Folx in Music Therapy
35. Elizabeth York: Following Euterpe
36. Juniper Monypenny and Spencer
Hardy: Queer Visibility and Shared Authenticity: Making A Case for Radical Self-Disclosure as Creative Arts Therapists
37. Leah Oswanski and Beth Robinson: Unpacking Bisexuality+. It's a Whole Wardrobe, Honey ...
38. Colin Andrew Lee: Moments of Musical Transcendence: Improvisation, Queer
Identity, and Loss
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Colin Andrew Lee studied piano at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie and subsequently earned his postgraduate diploma in music therapy from the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London. Colin was awarded the Music Therapy Charity research fellowship completing his doctoral thesis on the
analysis of improvisations with people living with HIV/AIDS at London Lighthouse, a centre for people facing the challenge of AIDS. He continued his clinical work at Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice, Oxford and then taught at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Following the publication of Music at
the Edge: The Music Therapy Experiences of a Musician with AIDS (1996 & 2016), he subsequently created the theory of aesthetic music therapy that was the subject of Colin's monograph The Architecture of Aesthetic Music Therapy (2003). Recent research interests include the musicological analysis of
postminimalist composers and their influence on the study of applied health musicology.
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