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Musical healing in cultural contexts
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- Creator
- edited by Penelope Gouk
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781840142792, 1840142790
- OCLC
- ocm41951292
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-216) and index.
- 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