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Life as jazz: Hope, meaning, and music therapy in the treatment of life-threatening illness.
Aldridge, David
Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, Vol 14(4), 1998, 271-282.
Proposes a musical metaphor for understanding the human being. Like a piece of jazz music, we are constantly improvised to meet the internal and external demands of our daily lives. Each of us has a theme that is our identity and a repertoire of being that we use to adapt biologically and existentially. Music therapy facilitates this improvisation by extending an individual’s repertoire to meet life’s challenges. The author proposes that creatively improvising music is one way to develop individual responses to life-threatening illness. The author also discusses the role of music therapy in AIDS, breast cancer, and spirituality. Music therapy, with its emphasis on personal contact and the value of the patient as a creative, productive human being, has a significant role to play in the fostering of hope in the individual.
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