| Description |
xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Music therapy.
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Music therapy. |
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Traditional medicine.
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Traditional medicine. |
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
| Added Author |
Gouk, Penelope.
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| ISBN |
1840142790 hardback |
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