The role of a music therapist exploring gender and power with young people: Articulating an emerging anti-oppressive practice

Abstract

This paper aims to articulate an emerging application of music therapy, drawing on data collected in a broader ongoing feminist research project. The project locates music therapy as an anti-oppressive practice for young people in high school to explore gender and power. This article focuses on how young people conceptualise this approach to music therapy practice. In the last decade, several approaches have emerged in the creative arts therapies that aim to critically explore power, and challenge dominant socio-political discourses. While there has been a dedicated interest in critical, feminist approaches to practice in the music therapy discipline, empirical research into music therapy as..