Groups in Music

Mercédès Pavlicevic was Associate Professor and Director of the Music Therapy Programme at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Visiting Researcher at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre in London. She authored Music Therapy in Context - Music, Meaning and Relationship and Music Therapy - Intimate Notes, and co-authored Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies - A Practical Guide, all of which are published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

• Introduction: Music, society, and shifting music therapy. PART ONE: Planning: Thinking ahead. 1. Planning our discourses. 2. Institutions, idiosyncrasies, and the larger picture. 3. In-groups, out-groups, norms and membership. 4. Instrumental thinking and sound thoughts. 5. On being formed by music. 6. Considering the music space. 7. Aims, tasks, roles and the outer track. PART TWO: Executing: `Doing'. 8. Forming groups and groups forming: Quick time, music time and sound deeds. 9. Group flow, group pulse - finding the groove. 10. Whose group? Whose music? (And whose expectations?) 11. Group rituals. 12. Live meanings - listening to music. 13. Team building and conflict resolution. PART THREE: Reflecting: Thinking back and forth. 14. How formed is your listening? (And how informed is your speaking?) 15. Persons as music (and finding the groove). 16. Group music, identity and society. 17. Absence, presence and climate control. 18. Group process and the `inner track'. 19. Evaluating and ending. In Conclusion. Recommended Reading. Index.

It is certainly a book to revisit - to have at hand when planning a project, to dip into it at points during a period of active practice- but also one to read with time to ponder for the broadly applicable insights it holds.