Performing a Family of Practices: Developments in Community Music Therapy across International Contexts

<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Abstract</div>Music therapists have brought their practices out of the private treatment setting and into active engagement with communities for the purposes of promoting health and supporting social change. With precursors starting several decades before, community music therapy emerged in the early 2000s as a lively dialogue, an evolving concept, and a family of practices. This article provides an overview of community music therapy by exploring its conceptual development across various cultural and international contexts. A sampling of key historical, theoretical, and practical elements serves as an introduction to the complexity and variation inherent in community music therapy theory and practice. Music therapists in the United States and abroad who are unfamiliar with, or perhaps perplexed by, community music therapy may gain an understanding of the intention of these practices, and in turn be moved to examine their own conceptualizations of health, community, and music therapy practice.</span>

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