The International Asian-Pacific Island Conference on Musical Therapy in Beijing: A New Measuring Reference

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The article presents information about the work of the International Asian-Pacific Island Conference on Musical Therapy, which took place on September 18–22, 2019 at the Beijing Pedagogical University (Beijing, China) and which posed topical questions related to the presentday condition and paths of development of world and regional musical therapy in dialogue with the challenges of the current time. This was the first conference devoted to this scholarly problem range, which brought together representatives of a number of countries of that region: China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, etc. The contradictions were acknowledged between the traditional ethno-cultural anthropo-practices and the notions and standards of American musical therapy, the latter exerting a considerable expansion into the Asian region. The authors emphasize the importance of the interdisciplinary approach in forming a single scholarly foundation and national standards of musical therapy from the positions of clinical methodology, both the cultural-anthropological and the exploratory psychological varieties. During the course of the conference ongoing paths of cooperation were set in the sphere of scholarly and educational programs, the development of cultural variations of an effective musical therapy, which would be on demand for clinical, social and psychologicalpedagogical practice.


Keywords: scholarly-practical conference of the Asian-Pacific Island Region, musical therapy, musical-psychological anthropology.

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Toropova А. В., & Мастнак Вольфганг. (2020). The International Asian-Pacific Island Conference on Musical Therapy in Beijing: A New Measuring Reference. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 41(4), 145–157. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1223
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Author Biographies

Alla V. Toropova

Alla V. Toropova, Dr.Sci. (Psychology), Dr.Sci. (Pedagogy), Leading Researcher, Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education,Moscow, Russia; Professor at the Department of Methodology and Technologies of Pedagogy of Music Education, Institute of Fine Arts of Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

Wolfgang Mastnak

Wolfgang Mastnak, Dr.Sci. (Medical), Dr.Sci. (Neuropsychology), Professor, Director, Art Therapy Research Center Beijing Pedagogical University, Beijing, China; Professor at the Department of Music Education, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Munich, Germany