The BMTN Archive
Welcome to the BMTN Archive. This platform contains collections of published and unpublished literature and multimedia/digital resources by members of the Black music therapy community along with relevant topics that affirm Black personhood and lifeworlds within music therapy theory, education, practice and research. You can find links to articles, books, chapters, commentaries, music, presentations, tributes, undergraduate and graduate theses, videos, and more.
Community-Based Projects Collection
The Community-Based Projects Collection features resources that focus on critical community-centered initiatives and projects within Black communities at the intersection of music, wellness, healing, transformation, and justice. If you would like to add a resource to this collection, please complete the BMTN Archive Resource Submission Form.
Note: This platform is currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION. While you are able to view, sort, and access resource links, the search bar tool is currently being reconfigured to increase user functionality. Stay tuned for updates.
Title | Author(s) | Year | Type | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community Music Therapy with Adolescents | Zane Ragland & Maurice Apprey | 1974 | Journal Article | Journal of Music Therapy | https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/11.3.147 |
Joining Forces: Impacts of Music Education and Music Therapy Collaboration in an Event-based Intergenerational Project | Melita Belgrave, Charles Robinson, & Lisa Tironi | 2016 | Proceeding | 21st International seminar of the commission on music in special education and music therapy | https://www.scuolamusicalegiudicarie.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Complete-and-Final-ISME-2016-Proceedings-.pdf#page=71 |
Evaluating the Efficacy of Evidence-based Music Interventions for Certified Nursing Assistants Caring for Nursing Home Residents with HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND) and Depressive Symptoms | Kendra Ray | 2017 | Doctoral Thesis | Drexel E-Repository | https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A7409 |
Between Lines: A Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Black Aesthetics in a Vocal Music Therapy Group for Chronic Pain | Marisol S. Norris | 2019 | Doctoral Thesis | Drexel E-Repository | https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A9523 |
Social Identity and the Music Making Choices of Black/African American Youth from Limited Resource Communities | Natasha Thomas | 2019 | Doctoral Thesis | Lesley E-Repository | https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1086&context=expressive_dissertations |
A Call for Radical Imagining: Exploring anti-Blackness in the music therapy profession. Spotlight Session on Access and Empowerment at the 16th World Congress of Music Therapy, Pretoria, South Africa.
| Marisol S. Norris | 2020 | Spotlight Video | World Federation of Music Therapy | https://youtu.be/uzdqpsjrJs0 |
Community-Based Referential Music Making with Limited-Resource Adolescents: A Pilot Study | Natasha Thomas | 2020 | Journal Article | Music Therapy Perspectives | https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/miaa016 |
Black Aesthetics: Upsetting, Undoing, and Uncanonizing the Arts Therapies | Marisol Norris, Britton Williams, Leah Gipson | 2021 | Editorial | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy | https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3287 |
Interview Transcript of Black Music Matters and The Black Messiah Album: An Interview with Adrian Dunn | Adrian Dunn, Leah Gipson, Marisol Norris | 2021 | Interview | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy | https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3291 |
Living in “Turbulence”: Reflections on a Therapeutic Theatre Performance | Jasmine Nicole Edwards | 2021 | Journal Article | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy | https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3165 |
