- 217 pages
- English
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About this book
Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also has highlighted the significance of social and individual factors in people's perception of and their ability to cope with the pandemic situation globally through music. Based on inter-disciplinary themes, and contributions from highly qualified international cohort of scholars, the volume will command attention amongst historians, ethnologists, musicologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychotherapists and other scholars in arts and humanities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Music and Plague: Historical Understandings
- Chapter 2: Roll Back Malaria: Music and Public Health Messaging in Senegal
- Chapter 3: “Sounding” Grief in the Gulf: Religion, Slavery, and Afro-Cuban Music in the Time of Cholera
- Chapter 4: Dance and the Body-Mind-Community Connection
- Chapter 5: Rhythm, Dance, and the Integrative Mode of Consciousness
- Chapter 6: Chanting Chenrezig and the Medicine Buddha: Buddhism, Sound, and Healing during COVID-19
- Chapter 7: Rituals, Ragas, and Sounds: Healing and Indian Music
- Chapter 8: Choir Non-Singing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sweden and Norway
- Chapter 9: Mindfulness, Expressive Writing, and Art: Connecting to the Ancestors during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Chapter 10: Community and Belonging in the Victorian Music Industries: Impact of COVID-19
- Index
- About the Contributors