· 2017· Review
Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts
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- 2017year
Short summary
This collection explores music's role in healing across diverse global cultures, examining its integration into spiritual, social, and medical practices.
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- Explores music's healing functions in the Bolivian Andes, African ngoma traditions, and Tumbuka trance practices.
- Examines the influence of 'spiritual medicine' and music in Islam on Western medicine.
- Discusses the historical relationship between music and medicine, including gendered traditions of musical healing in the West.
- Analyzes the use of music in 19th-century German psychiatry and its connection to hygiene in Africa.
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Abstract
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.
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