238 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do people use music to heal themselves and others? Are the healing powers of music universal or culturally specific? The essays in this volume address these two central questions as to music’s potential as a therapeutic source. The contributors approach the study of music healing from social, cultural and historical backgrounds, and in so doing provide perspectives on the subject which... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Penelope Gouk; Bodies of sound and landscapes of music: a view from the Bolivian Andes, Henry Stobart; Theories of music in African ngoma healing, John M. Janzen; Dancing the disease: music and trance in Tumbuka healing, Steven M. Friedson; ’Spiritual medicine’: music and healing in Islam and its influence in Western medicine, Charles Burnett; The inflected voice: attraction and curative properties, George Rousseau; ’No pill’s gonna cure my ill’: gender, erotic melancholy, and traditions of musical healing in the modern West, Linda Phyllis Austern; Soul music as exemplified in nineteenth-century German psychiatry, Cheryce Kramer; The dancing nurse: kalela drums and the history of hygiene in Africa, Lyn Schumaker; Sister disciplines?: Music and Medicine in historical perspective, Penelope Gouk; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Penelope Gouk
'...there is no doubt that, for some years to come, Musical Healing and Music as Medicine will both represent the indispensable point of reference for any reader who wishes to be fully informed and kept up to date with the relationship between the art of medicine and the art of sound.' Medicina & Storia, no. 2, 2001
