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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.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.
