Music As Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity (Music & Medicine)

by Peregrine Horden

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Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music therapy? What were their aims and techniques, and how much continuity is there between ancient, medieval and modern practice? These are the questions addressed by the essays in this volume. They focus on the place of music therapy in European intellectual, medical and musical traditions, from show more their classical roots to the development of the music therapy profession since the Second World War. Chapters covering the Judaic, Islamic, Indian and South-East Asian traditions add global, comparative perspectives. Music as Medicine is the first book to establish the whole shape of the history of music therapy in a systematic and scholarly way. It addresses the problem of defining what music therapy has meant in different cultures and periods, and sets the agenda for future research in the subject. It will appeal to a diverse readership of historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and practitioners. show less

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Peregrine Horden is Wellcome Trust Research Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Linda Phyllis Austern, Northwestern University David Gentilcore, University of Leicester Penelope Gouk, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester Noel show more Heather, Royal Holloway College, University of London Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway College, University of London Keith Howard, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Peter Murray Jones, King's College, Cambridge J. B. Katz, Westminster School, London Cheryce Kramer, University College, London Pilar Leon Sanz, University of Navarra, Pamplona Karen Ludtke, Linacre College, Oxford Christopher Page, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Amnon Shiloah, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Helen M. Tyler, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London Angela Voss, University of Kent Martin West, All Souls College, Oxford show less

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Music, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
615.85154Applied science & technologyMedicine & healthPharmacology and therapeuticsSpecific therapies and kinds of therapiesMiscellaneous therapiesMind cure; Influence of mind on bodyArt Therapy, Music Therapy, and other creative therapy formsMusic Therapy
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ML3920 .M87MusicLiterature on musicLiterature on musicPhilosophical and societal aspects of music. PhysicsMoral influence of music. Therapeutic use of music
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