Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction
• In sickness and in health: defining the ecological perspective
• Learning from Erving Goffman, part I: agency and culture
• Learning from Erving Goffman part II: reconfiguring the concept of asylum
• Music asylums, part I: disconnections, reconnections and removal
• Music asylums, part II: making musical space together, furnishing and refurnishing worlds
• Musicalizing consciousness: aesthetics and anaesthetics
• Where is good music?
• Conclusion: what makes us well and when? And how to know if music helps?
• References
• Index.