Bad vibrations : the history of the idea of music as cause of disease / James Kennaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennaway, James Gordon, 1975- author.

Series:

History of medicine in context.

History of Medicine in Context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music--Physiological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Music has been used as a cure for disease, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth-century. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

Contents:

Introduction: musical orders and disorders

From sensibility to pathology: nervous music (1700-1850)

Modern music and nervous modernity: Wagnerism as a disease of civilization (1850-1914)

Pathological music, politics and race: Germany and the United States (1900-45)

Music as mind-control, music as weapon: pathological music since 1945.

Notes:

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kennaway, James Bad Vibrations

ISBN:

9786613666451

9781409456216

1409456218

9781317176473

1317176472

9781315568621

1315568624

9781317176466

1317176464

9781280689512

128068951X

9781409426431

1409426432

OCLC:

794176794