Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy
Voices is an Open Access peer reviewed journal that invites interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion about music, health, and social change. The journal nurtures a critical edge that refines the focus on inclusiveness, socio-cultural awareness, and social justice. We publish three issues per year, typically at the beginning of March, July and November.
- Website
- voices.no · all feeds from this site
- Feed URL
https://voices.no/index.php/voices/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/rss2
Read it in your FeedListing reader
Or add to: Feedly Inoreader Raw feed
Latest posts
-
A Defining Moment
In this article, the author offers exploration and insight, building on Dr. Carolyn Kenny’s metaphor of the great river of humanity that flows underneath all music therapy practice. Adapted from a recent music therapy regional conference keynote, the author draws on local…
-
Story of the Rocking Rainbows 2019 – 2025
The Rocking Rainbows is a music band that began in 2019, blending therapeutic musicmaking with a spirit of collaboration and self-expression. What started as a simple idea between Reg (band member) and Sophie (music therapist), soon grew into a band with three other members:…
-
Implementing Live Music Therapy in a Level III NICU in Italy in Synergy with an Existing Positive Touch and Babywearing Program
A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is often a stressful environment for infants, potentially impeding developmental progress. Each interaction between a premature infant and their caregiver holds the potential to influence the infant’s neuro-emotional developmental…
-
Conversations on Music, Allyship, and Reconciliation with Indigenous Music Therapists in Canada
This study aims to connect discourses about allyship and reconciliation to music therapy by centring the voices of Indigenous practitioners. Canada is working toward reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and aspiring allyship is a way to guide this pursuit both in general and…
-
An Investigation into the Use of Irish Traditional Music in Northern Irish Music Therapy Practice
The provision of mental health and therapeutic services is deemed a vital response to the vast traumatisation of the largely bicultural community of Northern Ireland resulting from the “Troubles” conflict. Music therapy research places importance on understanding, interacting,…
-
How the Identities and Lived Experiences of LGBTQ+ Music Therapists Impact Their Therapeutic Practices and Relationships with Service Users
This qualitative study explores how LGBTQ+ music therapists’ identities and lived experiences impact their therapeutic practices and relationships with service users. Through semi-structured interviews with three LGBTQ+ music therapists, this research investigates authenticity,…
-
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Researchers have largely failed to examine why music therapists are leaving the profession and there is minimal research on career longevity within the field of music therapy. However, between the years 2020 and 2021 almost 300 music therapists, out of a total of 9,594, left the…
-
Significant Moments of Undergraduate Music Therapy Students
In this exploratory qualitative study using Memory Work methodology, we focused on the lived clinical training experiences of undergraduate music therapy students through collaborative reflection. Seven students and one instructor participated as co-researchers within a…
-
Wanted Dead or Alive
Rap—perhaps uniquely among musical styles—invites expressions that explicitly draw on the prisoner identity as a vital resource for artistic credibility and creativity. Progressive rock often privileges an aesthetic of compositional complexity and technical proficiency on a…
-
Interactive Music to Facilitate Communication and Engagement in Advanced Dementia
This exploratory case study focuses on a 90-year-old female dementia patient, a veteran of the Second World War, who participated in multiple face-to-face singing and activating sessions. These sessions utilised interactive singing designed to stimulate cognitive, emotional, and…
-
Music-facilitated Relaxation in Adolescents
Music is a common resource for adolescents, but relatively few studies have empirically investigated adolescents’ use of music for relaxation. This study aimed to answer the following questions: (1) Does self-selected music promote relaxation (at both subjective and…
-
Resource-Oriented Music Therapy for Adults with Autoimmune Disease and Mood Disorders
Up to 50 million individuals in the United States are currently living with autoimmune diseases (AD). ADs can affect multiple systems in the body and impact the daily life and mental health of those living with ADs. While there are several pharmacological treatments that improve…
-
The Great River of Humanity
This is the editorial for the July 2026 issue.