Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing
More Than Words
Published on 30. September 2020
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-1-7936-0268-8 (ISBN)
Description
Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing: More than Words examines a number of widely used expressive arts therapies from a communication perspective, providing case studies and other qualitative investigations focused specifically on communication aspects of expressive therapies including drama, music, and dance/movement therapies. This collection, edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz and authored by contributors with experience as educators, artists, and licensed therapists, integrates communication, therapy, and pedagogy to explore the role and efficacy of expressive arts therapies. Scholars of communication, performing arts, and mental health will find this book particularly useful, along with mental health practitioners and scholars conducting fieldwork.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 tables;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-0268-8 (9781793602688)
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09/2020
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Kamran Afary | Alice Marianne Fritz
Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing
More Than Words
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09/2020
1st Edition
Bloomsbury eBooks US
€125.99
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Persons
Kamran Afary is assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
Alice Marianne Fritz is lecturer in the Department of Speech at East Los Angeles College.
Alice Marianne Fritz is lecturer in the Department of Speech at East Los Angeles College.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kamran Afary and Marianne Alice Fritz
Part I. Performance and Drama
1.Teaching Interpersonal Communication in Prison with Narradrama
Kamran Afary
2.More than Human
Mady Schutzman
3.Theatre for Revolution or Theatre for Healing? Forum Theatre with LGBT2SIQ+ and Other Targeted Communities
Jessica Bleuer
4.Two Snapshots: (Staging) Image Theatre as a Healing Art
Bonny McDonald
5.Eyas on the Prize: Mapping the Relaunch of Performance at the University of Houston-Clear Lake
Andrea Baldwin
Part II. Narrative, Art, Dance, and Music
6."Hip-Hop Just Saved Me": Rap Music Engagement as a Music-Based Intervention for Substance-Addicted Youth
Marianne Alice Fritz and Kamran Afary
7.Preferred Cultural Mediums of Healing: Rapping into Identity
Travis Heath and Jacobo Mesa Ramirez
8.Music Therapy: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding How Music Therapists and Adolescent Patients Communicate and Perform Community
Melanie Frontz Kramer and Kurt Lindemann
9.Comfort
Introduction
Kamran Afary and Marianne Alice Fritz
Part I. Performance and Drama
1.Teaching Interpersonal Communication in Prison with Narradrama
Kamran Afary
2.More than Human
Mady Schutzman
3.Theatre for Revolution or Theatre for Healing? Forum Theatre with LGBT2SIQ+ and Other Targeted Communities
Jessica Bleuer
4.Two Snapshots: (Staging) Image Theatre as a Healing Art
Bonny McDonald
5.Eyas on the Prize: Mapping the Relaunch of Performance at the University of Houston-Clear Lake
Andrea Baldwin
Part II. Narrative, Art, Dance, and Music
6."Hip-Hop Just Saved Me": Rap Music Engagement as a Music-Based Intervention for Substance-Addicted Youth
Marianne Alice Fritz and Kamran Afary
7.Preferred Cultural Mediums of Healing: Rapping into Identity
Travis Heath and Jacobo Mesa Ramirez
8.Music Therapy: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding How Music Therapists and Adolescent Patients Communicate and Perform Community
Melanie Frontz Kramer and Kurt Lindemann
9.Comfort