Freedom Dreams: What Must Die in Music Therapy to Preserve Human Dignity?

This commentary was written on the week of September 28, 2020, as grand jury decisions on the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, were publicly announced on news and media outlets. Six months after Breonna Taylor's brutal murder in Louisville, Kentucky (United Stat...

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Main Author: Marisol Samantha Norris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: GAMUT - Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (NORCE & University of Bergen) 2020-10-01
Series:Voices
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Online Access:https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3172
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Freedom Dreams: What Must Die in Music Therapy to Preserve Human Dignity?
Voices
police brutality
radical imagination
culturally sustaining practice
Black clients
Black aesthetics
protests
title Freedom Dreams: What Must Die in Music Therapy to Preserve Human Dignity?
title_full Freedom Dreams: What Must Die in Music Therapy to Preserve Human Dignity?
title_fullStr Freedom Dreams: What Must Die in Music Therapy to Preserve Human Dignity?
title_full_unstemmed Freedom Dreams: What Must Die in Music Therapy to Preserve Human Dignity?
title_short Freedom Dreams: What Must Die in Music Therapy to Preserve Human Dignity?
title_sort freedom dreams what must die in music therapy to preserve human dignity
topic police brutality
radical imagination
culturally sustaining practice
Black clients
Black aesthetics
protests
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