Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts
- Editor: Gouk, Penelope
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Contents
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index.