Desarrollos conceptuales del Colectivo85 en Musicoterapia Comunitaria

Evocaciones del presente-futuro “oyendo como un ciego frente al mar”

Abstract

Colectivo85 is a group of music therapists formed because of the interested in different approaches of non-clinical music therapy. Since 2003, Colectivo85 developed actions in research, praxis and teaching community music therapy in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), Argentina. This article presents the axes that support Colectivo85’s music therapy perspective. Positioned from community health, the perspective of music therapy oriented in community health is developed as a way to establish new relationships between music, health, community and music therapist’s intervention, from an integral, holistic and integrative perspective of health. Health is defined as a complex process, multidimensionally determined, crossed by a gendered perspective, process of an ecosystem nature that occurs in permanent and reciprocally transformative interactions between people and their environments. Transcending the historical conception of western culture regarding music, it is conceived in its active, interactive dimensions and inserted in a wide range of social activities as a privileged tool that people have used and continue to use throughout time to human interaction, as well as a means of intervention for music therapists. In the systematization of the relationships between music, health and community, reflective musical making (reflective musicking) is described as its own terminological and methodological elaboration that shares the critical, dialogical, participatory and horizontal character that defines community intervention and that aims to transform the reality of a community. In this way, a perspective of community music therapy located in our territory and cross-sectioned by the gender perspective is outlined, mainly from the contributions of southern feminisms that have allowed us to complicate and deepen our gaze.