This article develops two major ways to approach and reconstruct the core our discipline: Community Music Therapy and Research in Music Therapy. The development of Community Music Therapy is recent, the experiences within scientific literature are scarce and the Anglo-Saxon literature has few elements with extrapolate to the Latin American reality. Therefore, this paper opens the way to exchange ideas and needs arising from the author’s experience. It is based on the guiding idea that research in Community Music Therapy seeks to give meaning and answers to problems arising from local and contextualized practice. Practice is the question. Research is needed for the explanatory progress of a discipline, but it is even more necessary to find methods and strategies that provide solutions to social problems. An investigation - action - as a model for participatory community approach is proposed (Fals Borda, 1972). What distinguishes the musical experiences in institutions or street art, from Community Music Therapy? What is the methodological contribution that music therapy gives to preventive, promotional and community work? This article develops an epistemic music therapy position bound to issues and findings from the local context of public health.
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