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Ricki S Worth, Charity N Waweru, Kimberly Sena Moore, Music Therapy in a Multicultural Context: A Handbook for Music Therapy Students and Professionals, Journal of Music Therapy, Volume 58, Issue 4, Winter 2021, Pages e41–e45, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thab007
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In 1988, Dr. Joseph Moreno published an article in the Journal of Music Therapy (JMT) in which he argued for the value of non-western musics in music therapy practice. This marked the first published use of “multicultural” in the title of a JMT article. In the decades since, there has been an increase in scholarly work and publications on multiculturalism and music therapy. Additionally, there is a growing call among students and professionals for increased awareness of (and critical thought around) diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. Therefore, the release of Music therapy in a multicultural context (2020), edited by Drs. Melita Belgrave and Seung-A Kim, seems a timely addition to the literature.
We approached this review from diverse cultural identities and perspectives that informed the lenses from which we read and interpreted the text. I (Dr. Kimberly Sena Moore) am an educator, supervisor, clinician, and scholar, with over 15 years of professional music therapy experience. I am White, female, cisgender, heterosexual, highly educated, and upper middle class, raised middle class in Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern suburbia. I (Charity Waweru) am a second-year, preprofessional music therapy graduate student. I am an African American, cisgender, heterosexual female born of parents from East Africa. I was raised on the East coast in a middle-class, multigenerational household. I (Ricki Worth) am also a second-year, preprofessional music therapy graduate student. I am an East Asian cisgender female who identifies as queer, and was adopted and raised by a middle-class family in a West coast suburb with a predominantly Asian community. We all currently reside in an internationally diverse metropolitan area.
