Voicework in Music Therapy

Felicity Baker, PhD is Associate Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow based at The School of Music, The University of Queensland. She is co-editor of Song Writing Methods, Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators and Students and co-author of Music Therapy in Neurorehabilitation: A Clinician's Manual. She reviews for a number of music therapy and interdisciplinary journals and is editor-in-chief for The Australian Journal of Music Therapy. Felicity has a strong interest in recovering the expressive potential of the voice following traumatic brain injury.

• Acknowledgements. Foreword by Diane Austin. Part 1. Introduction to Voicework in Music Therapy. 1. Voicework in Music Therapy: Pioneers and a New Generation, Felicity Baker and Sylka Uhlig. Part 2. Structured Approaches to Voicework. 2. A Vocal-led Relaxation for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Esther Thane. 3. Rap and Singing for the Emotional and Cognitive Development of At-risk Children: Development of a Method, Sylka Uhlig. 4. A Field of Vocal Discovery: Self-exploration through Community Singing, Nicola Oddy. 5. Use of Voice for Empowering Inner Safety: Sori of a Woman with Trauma, Hyun Ju Chong. 6. How Can Singing in Music Therapy Influence Social Engagement for People with Dementia? Insights from the Polyvagal Theory, Hanne Mette Ridder. 7. Singing for Respiratory Muscle Training: Using Therapeutic Singing and Vocal Interventions to Improve Respiratory Function and Voice Projection for People with a Spinal Cord Injury, Jeanette Tamplin. 8. Climax and Cadence in the Uninflected Voice: Reclaiming Emotional Expression in the Dysprosodic Voice of People with Traumatic Brain Injury, Felicity Baker. 9. Coordinating Respiration, Vocalization, and Articulation: Rehabilitating Apraxic and Dysarthric Voices of People with Neurological Damage, Felicity Baker and Jeanette Tamplin. 10. Speech-Music Therapy for Aphasia (SMTA): An Interdisciplinary Treatment of Speech-language Therapy and Music Therapy for Clients with Aphasia and/or Apraxia of Speech, Madeleen de Bruijn, Joost Hurkmans and Tea Zielman. Part 3. Free Approaches to Voicework. 11. Contingent Singing: The Musicality of Companionship with the Hospitalized Newborn Infant, Helen Shoemark. 12. Tonal Intervallic Synthesis as Integration in Medical Music Therapy, Joanne Loewy. 13. Expanding My World: Improvised Voicework with a Woman with Parkinson's Disease, Satomi Kondo. 14. A Path to Self-awareness: Voicework as an Important Part of My Clinical Approach, Inge Nygaard Pedersen. 15. The Vocal Hello Space Model in Hospice Music Therapy, Susan Summers. 16. Final Notes: Therapeutic Uses of the Voice with Imminently Dying Patients, Cheryl Dileo. Part 4. Conclusion. 17. Diversity in approaches to Therapeutic Voicework: Developing a Model of Voicework in Music Therapy, Felicity Baker and Sylka Uhlig. Editors and Contributors.

This book will undoubtedly enrich the field considerably.