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Wheeler, Barbara: WMFT Proceedings of the Education Symposium
The Latin American Music Therapy Committee
In 1993, during the 7 th World Congress held in Vitoria, Spain, the
Latin-American Music Therapists who participated created a ground of
exchange and communication between Latin-American countries, since
some of them had similar professional realities, and also similar historic,
political and cultural circumstances. A council was created , integrated by
Music Therapists that represented those countries.
At the present time, The Music Therapy Latin American Committee,
has its own statute and functioning rules, and has been supporting the
development of the discipline by helping in the organization of congresses
and different kinds of events, such as 2 Latin-American Encounters, held in
Rio de Janeiro in 1996 and 1998.
The principal goal of this Committee is to create a communication
and exchange net between Latin-American countries, taking care of the
needs of each country, in aspects that have to do with the diffusion of music
therapy, the development of research projects, as well as, and very
especially, the education and training of the music therapists.
Activity Around Music Therapy
Today, we find that in Latin America we have 3 countries with official
activity, and 6 more where a lot of non-official activity is being held.
There are:
Ten Official Undergraduate Training Courses, which are distributed as
follows:
Four in Argentina
* University of Salvador (1966) (private) Faculty of Medicine School
of Paramedic Disciplines
* University of Buenos Aires (U.B.A) (1993) (free)
* Interamerican Open University (U.A.I.) (private)
branch Rosario, 1991; branch Buenos Aires, 1996
Six in Brazil
* Art Faculty of Parana (1970) ,
* Brazilian Conservatory of Music (1972)
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