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Ethnomusicological perspectives on autism, neurodiversity, and music therapy.
2014
Author
Bakan, M.
Language
English
Source / Publisher
Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 14(3).

 This article suggests a provisional paradigm shift from disability as pathology, to disability as neurodiversity: this has the potential to productively resituate the epistemological orientations of music therapy, both as a field of inquiry and a domain of practice. Drawaing from their own work on the ethnomusicology of autism, as well as from research and writings in disability studies and autistic self-advocacy, they propose that the relativistic foundations of ethnomusicology offer a potentially useful alternative and complement to the principally treatment-directed foundations of music therapy.