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Musical healing in cultural contexts / edited by Penelope Gouk.

Contributor(s): Gouk, Penelope
Language: English Publisher: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.Description: xi, 223p. : ill. port. ; 25cm.ISBN: 1840142790; 9781840142792
Contents:
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 / Lynn Schumaker; Sister disciplines?: music and medicine in historical perspective / Penelope Gouk
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KFYV [GOU-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M45257
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliography (p. [197]-216) and index

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 / Lynn Schumaker; Sister disciplines?: music and medicine in historical perspective / Penelope Gouk

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