摘要：This case study research explores the impact of a musical performance event—the
Coffee House—held bi-annually at an adolescent mental health treatment facility in
Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Any client or staff member is welcomed to perform at
this event, which is organized by the facility’s music therapist and framed here as an
example of community music therapy. Drawing upon Turino’s (2008) ethnomusicological
perspective on performance, I will argue that the Coffee House’s success within
this context is due to its participatory ethos, wherein success is primarily defined by
the act of participation. Here, performance takes place within an inclusive and supportive
atmosphere in which participants can overcome anxiety, engage in the risktaking
of performance, and experience increased self-efficacy and confidence. This
ethos also naturally affords a “levelling” of institutional relationship dynamics. Resonant
with Aigen’s (2004) vision that “performances as community music therapy can
forge a new type of art, one that creates meaning and invites participation” (p. 211),
the Coffee House exemplifies the ways in which the values within participatory settings
are indeed different and new in comparison to presentational settings that are
the norm in Western society.
关键词：community music therapy;mental health;adolescents;performance;
participatory;ethnomusicology
