摘要：Our playful title, "Muti Music", emblematises our stance of deliberate and cultivated
suspicion towards medical ethnomusicology, for this special issue. Positioned within and
between music therapy, medical anthropology and ethnomusicology, this paper considers
how these disciplinary discourses and practices might engage with Medical
Ethnomusicology, and what that prism might offer music therapy in particular. Muti Music
proposes messy hybridity, which we suggest reflects the social-cultural and cosmological
fusions necessary for contemporary practices whether in, or of, the South, East, North or
West. Straddling the South and the Global North, we propose that Western (and at times
bio-medically informed) healing and health practices might well consider reclaiming and
re-sourcing their own, and other, traditional and indigenous healing cosmologies, whatever
their respective and situated ideologies and ontologies. Despite apparent (and possibly
intellectual and ideological) segmentations and separations of disciplines by Western
scholarship and economics, we propose that "the ancestors" and "the aspirin" need to
embrace rather than view one another with suspicion. Just possibly, each might become
enriched (and discomforted) by the silenced coincidences of one another’s desires to
know and experience our common humanity through music.
其他摘要：Our playful title, "Muti Music", emblematises our stance of deliberate and cultivated suspicion towards medical ethnomusicology, for this special issue. Positioned within and between music therapy, medical anthropology and ethnomusicology, this paper considers how these disciplinary discourses and practices might engage with Medical Ethnomusicology , and what that prism might offer music therapy in particular. Muti Music proposes messy hybridity, which we suggest reflects the social-cultural and cosmological fusions necessary for contemporary practices whether in, or of, the South, East, North or West. Straddling the South and the Global North, we propose that Western (and at times bio-medically informed) healing and health practices might well consider reclaiming and re-sourcing their own, and other, traditional and indigenous healing cosmologies, whatever their respective and situated ideologies and ontologies. Despite apparent (and possibly intellectual and ideological) segmentations and separations of disciplines by Western scholarship and economics, we propose that "the ancestors" and "the aspirin" need to embrace rather than view one another with suspicion. Just possibly, each might become enriched (and discomforted) by the silenced coincidences of one another’s desires to know and experience our common humanity through music.
关键词：medical ethnomusicology; music therapy; health; healing rituals; South Africa;
cultural spaces; music healing narratives
