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Musical healing in cultural contexts / edited by Penelope Gouk.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3920 .M89997 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music therapy.
- Traditional medicine.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Music Therapy.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Medical Subjects:
- Music Therapy.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, [2000]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840142790
- OCLC:
- 41951292
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