What We Owe Each Other As Music Therapists
Brea Murakami, MM, MT-BC An update from January 18th, 2022 summarizing the impact of this blog post from July 2021 – January 2022 can be read here. In June 2021, I published my first solo-authored journal article about the Music […]
Unconventional Academic Productivity Hacks
I’m currently in my third year of teaching and it’s pretty safe to say that I’ve taken to my self-imposed title of being an “academic.” One big clue is that if you opened my closet, you’d find three fashion capes […]
A Day in the Life of a Music Therapy Professor
I found a brilliant conversation starter on twitter last year that I’ve used from everyone to family members to complete strangers and I always get an interesting answer. The question, “What’s something about your job that seems obvious to you […]
A Japanese Music Therapy Academic at WCMT 2017
Three months isn’t too late to write a blog post, right? One of the stops during my whirlwind of a summer was attending the World Congress for Music Therapy (WCMT) in Tsukuba, Japan in July 2017. When I was asked […]
What It’s Like Being a Music Therapy Research Assistant
I’m really into research. Like, I read peer-reviewed journals to unwind. Nothing’s better than grabbing the latest copy of the Journal of Music Therapy to enjoy in a bubble bath. And research is very tied to my identity as a […]