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Back to my Mother Tongue: Challenging the Ideal of one Language for all in Music Therapy
No full text"I wish you would teach in Arabic," a student tells me. She takes my breath away: that language barrier again. So familiar. About a year ago, following an ongoing struggle with academic English, I returned to Hebrew, reclaiming the freedom of writing and speech, even at the cost of sharing my thoughts with a wider audience, publishing my texts, and achieving more recognition. This critical essay describes the experience of a non- English-speaking music therapist and academic through the prism of language and power. The complex influences of verbal speech are described. The ideal of international language, its benefits and its consequences are presented as well. The author\u27s story, her mother tongue, Hebrew, and a recent Israeli survey on the accessibility of language may serve to shine a light on possibly similar experiences of non-English-speaking music therapists. The experiences of a Palestinian, Arab-speaking music therapist also complement this narrative. In closing, the author reflects on the possible implications of dominant languages on the global music therapy community and challenges the value of this ideal.
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"לו רק לימדתם בערבית" אומרת בסוף ההרצאה הסטודנטית האחרונה שנשארה בכיתה. אני מרימה אליה ראש ומפסיקה לנשום, המומה מהכנות שלה. היא משיבה אותי אל מחסום השפה שגם אני חווה: אל אותו רגע לפני שנה שבו החלטתי לשוב לכתוב בשפת אמי לאחר מאבק מתמשך עם האנגלית האקדמית. לתבוע מחדש את חירות המחשבה והדיבור אפילו במחיר צמצום היכולת לפרסם, לחלוק מחשבות עם העולם המקצועי הרחב ולקבל הכרה מקצועית.
המאמר הנוכחי, מאמר ביקורת, עוסק בבעיית השפה של מטפלות ומטפלים במוסיקה ואקדמאים בעלי שפת אם שאינה אנגלית. מתוארות במאמר השפעותיה המורכבות של שפה על האדם: יתרונותיה והמחירים שהיא גובה. חווייתם של מטפלים במוסיקה שאינם דוברי אנגלית במקור מודגמת באמצעות סיפורה האישי של המחברת ושפת אמה, העברית, ובעזרת סקר בו השתתפו מטפלים במוסיקה העובדים במדינת ישראל. משלימה את המסע חווייתה של מטפלת במוסיקה פלסטינית הדוברת ערבית כשפת אם. בעקבות כל אלה המאמר נוגע בהשלכות האפשריות של שפות בינלאומיות דומיננטיות על התפתחותן של קהילות מקצוע מקומיות, ועל הקהילה העולמית של טיפול במוסיקה. בין המילים משולבים קטעי אמנות חזותית וקול להרחבה והמחשה
Operation syncopation: Music therapy and autism (Thompson, Ed.)
Full text linkThis is a review of the film "Operation syncopation: Music therapy and autism" directed and edited by Maxim Thompson.
Title: Operation syncopation: Music therapy and autism Film director and editor: Maxim Thompson Publication year: 201
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A tribute to Chava Sekeles (17 October 1936 – 24 March 2018)
Full text linkA tribute to Chava Sekeles (17 October 1936 – 24 March 2018
Communicative musicality, music and transformation in the lives of parents and their children with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities (CPMD)
Full text linkΟι γεννήσεις παιδιών με εγκεφαλική παράλυση και πολλαπλές αναπηρίες αποτελούν δοκιμασία για την ευεξία των οικογενειών τους. Αυτό το άρθρο, το οποίο βασίζεται σε ένα θέμα που προέκυψε από μια έρευνα βασισμένη σε συνεντεύξεις, υποδηλώνει ότι η επικοινωνιακή μουσικότητα και η καθημερινή χρήση της μουσικής μεταμορφώνουν τις εμπειρίες αυτών των οικογενειών. Τα ερευνητικά ερωτήματα αποσκοπούσαν στη διερεύνηση της μουσικότητας των ατόμων με εγκεφαλική παράλυση και της χρήσης της μουσικής εντός των οικογενειών τους. Στη μελέτη αυτή συμμετείχαν έξι γονείς ατόμων με εγκεφαλική παράλυση και πολλαπλές αναπηρίες. Τα δεδομένα συγκεντρώθηκαν μέσω μιας σειράς τριών συνεντεύξεων με κάθε συμμετέχοντα, οι οποίες εμπεριείχαν και την προβολή αυτοσχέδιων βίντεο που καταγράφουν στιγμές από τη ζωή στο σπίτι. Οι μεταγραφές των συνεντεύξεων αναλύθηκαν με ερμηνευτική φαινομενολογική ανάλυση και την εμπειρικά θεµελιωµένη θεωρία [grounded theory]. Αρχικά δημιουργήθηκαν τρεις βασικές θεματικές ενότητες (και παρουσιάστηκαν σε άλλη δημοσίευση). Η θεματική της «μεταμόρφωσης» είναι μια τέταρτη θεματική που προέκυψε από μια μεταγενέστερη ανάλυση των ερευνητικών συνεντεύξεων. Η θεματική αυτή παρουσιάζεται εδώ μέσα από τις φωνές των γονέων καθώς και από τις ερμηνείες των ερευνητών. Επίσης, συζητούνται οι θεωρητικές και ερευνητικές προοπτικές που σχετίζονται με την επικοινωνιακή μουσικότητα, την καθημερινή μουσικοτροπία [musicking] και την ευεξία. Προτείνουμε ότι τόσο η εντατική χρήση μη λεκτικών επικοινωνιακών προσεγγίσεων από τις οικογένειες όσο και η χρήση της μουσικής μεταμόρφωσαν τις εμπειρίες τους: μεταμόρφωσαν τη διάθεσή τους, τη συμμετοχή τους και τα νοήματα που σχετίζονται με τη συλλογική τους ζωή.The births of children with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities (CPMD) challenge their families’ wellbeing. This article, which is based on a theme generated from an interview study, suggests that communicative musicality and the everyday use of music transforms these families’ experiences. The research questions aimed to explore the musicality of individuals with cerebral palsy, and the use of music within their families. Six parents to individuals with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities participated in this study. The data were collected through a three-interview series with each participant, integrated with home-video viewing. The interview transcripts were analysed with interpretative phenomenological analysis and grounded theory. Initially three core themes were generated (and presented in another publication). The ‘transformation’ theme is a fourth theme generated from a later analysis of the research interviews. It is presented here through the parents’ voices as well as the researchers’ interpretations. Theory and research are discussed on communicative musicality, everyday musicking, and wellbeing. We suggest that the families’ intensive use of nonverbal communicative approaches, and music transformed their experiences: their moods, participation, and the meanings related to their lives together
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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