Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy

09/05/2025

Join us at Voices – We are expanding our team!

Voices invites applications for Article Editors, Copy Editors, and a Communications Editor.

Article Editors serve as primary contact with authors and play a central role in assuring that both manuscripts and the process of peer review reflect values of Voices. Article editors are key voices in making editorial decisions about manuscripts and in the development of the journal. Like all of our editorial team, we aim that our article editors represent a mangfold of cultural contexts, languages, orientations and backgrounds that can engage a broad spectrum of authors.

Copy Editors liaise with authors to prepare the accepted manuscript for publication, with particular attention to language issues such as non-binary language, non-ableist language, and authorship when English is not a first language. Copy Editors aim to preserve the unique voice of the author(s).

The Communications Editor is responsible for maintaining an active and engaging social media presence for Voices; working with authors to create short videos and posts to bring attention to Voices content; testing out technologies that facilitate direct engagement among authors and readers; and working to promote international recognition and access.

To apply, please send a CV and a statement of your motivation, demonstrating your connection to our vision and values and stating what you can bring to the role. Successful applicants for Article Editors should demonstrate experience as author and/or reviewer of refereed publications. Experience as editor is an advantage, but not a requirement. When considering applicants, we will give prioritization to people from under-represented groups. We welcome applications until June 12, 2025.

Please send to Claire Ghetti at [email protected]

https://voices.no/index.php/voices/announcement/view/87

01/03/2025

Our latest issue of Voices has been published! Vol 25 No 1 (2025). We begin with a call to engagement and action, in these turbulent times, to promote social justice. We stand in solidarity with those who are being further othered and marginalized by recent political changes. Potentials for promoting social justice, ethical accountability in education and training, inclusiveness, equity in research, and health-promoting resources are explored in contributions from Austria, Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. (with select dual-language articles available in German and Japanese). Inspired by this issue’s authors and responding to global political currents, we encourage all our readers to consider how they can use their voices to support the collective good.

02/11/2024

The latest issue of Voices is now available! Vol 24 No 3 (2024). Of relevance to the current times, the issue opens with a reflection by Marisa de León on Día de los Mu***os, and practices honoring those who have died. Authors in the issue describe practice and research taking place in Colombia, Ireland, Hong Kong and the US. The articles in this issue offer us the space to remember, acknowledge and reflect.

An Open Access peer reviewed journal that invites interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion about music, health, and social change.

03/03/2024

A new issue of Voices has been published! Featuring authors from The Netherlands, USA, South Africa, and Spain, the March 2024 issue examines subjects such as music and imagery, work satisfaction of music therapists, music with people with dementia, and religious music-making. Read the articles at voices.no.

11/02/2024

Marisa de León explores values within the Mexican American community and how they impact the therapeutic alliance through composite vignettes. Read more details on how to provide culture-centered music therapy in the Rio Grande Valley in the full article at voices.no.

18/01/2024

Denise Straume Hansen McIvor examines the relationship between music therapists and their adult clients in this qualitative study. You can read the full article in the current issue of Voices.

02/11/2023

The November 2023 issue has been published! Featuring articles from Australia, the US, Spain, India and Norway, this issue reflects on the role and perspectives of music therapists around the world. Visit https://voices.no/index.php/voices/index to read!

12/09/2023

We are expanding our team! Call for Article Editors

Voices invites applications for Article Editors who support our practices of transparent publishing and dialogic peer review.

Article Editors serve as primary contact with authors and play a central role in assuring that both manuscripts and the process of peer review reflect values of Voices. They liaise between authors and peer reviewers to promote a dialogic process of peer review, following manuscripts from assignment at submission through to copyediting. Article editors are key voices in making editorial decisions about manuscripts and in the development of the journal. Like all of our editorial team, we aim that our article editors represent a mangfold of cultural contexts, languages, orientations and backgrounds that can engage a broad spectrum of authors.

To apply, please send a CV and a statement of your motivation, demonstrating your connection to our vision and values and stating what you can bring to the role. Successful applicants will need to demonstrate experience as author and/or reviewer of refereed publications. Experience as editor is an advantage, but not a requirement. When considering applicants, we will give prioritization to people from under-represented groups. We welcome applications until September 29, 2023.

Please send to Claire Ghetti at [email protected]

Voices is an open access, online music therapy forum that was created in 2001 to centralise the values of inclusion and diversity in a music therapy journal, particularly in relation to culture and social justice. The editorial team is committed to developing an egalitarian and interdisciplinary for...

02/08/2023

Mufu Luvai's essay reflects on her personal experience as a Kenyan music therapy student completing an internship in rural Kenya. Read the full essay in the current issue of Voices at https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3455 .

17/07/2023

An intercultural collaboration is examined by Lucy Bolger, Sameer Valsangkar, Sumathy Sundar, and Melissa Murphy in this 1.5 year action research pilot study. The authors provide important reflections on the process of information exchange, intercultural communication and collaboration. Read the full article at https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3729/3652

10/07/2023

Authors Frode A. Kristiansen, Brynjulf Stige, and Anna Helle-Valle examine the potential benefits of music therapy on agitation in dementia in this case-study. Read the entire article in the current issue of Voices. https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3851

01/07/2023

New issue: Voices Vol 23 No 2 (2023) has just been published! With reflections on intercultural spaces and interpersonal musical processes, this issue continues the Voices tradition of reflexivity and sociocultural awareness. Through arts-based research, action research, case study and reflections on practice, among other approaches, authors from Kenya, India, Australia, Denmark, Norway and the United States share their perspectives and stimulate our thinking and action.