"This book focuses on the role of music and performing arts in facilitating a mind-body unity for positive health"--
This book focuses on the role of music and performing arts in facilitating a mind-body unity for positive health.
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 peoples 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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A wonderfully rich, truly interdisciplinary volume, Music, Health and the Body brings together innovative work at the crossroads of cultural histories of ethnomusicology, religion, and health. Global in scope, this excellent volume is sure to spur new research into the ways that music is central to both healing practices and ideations of the body. -- Jacob Steere-Williams, The College of Charleston
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This book focuses on the role of music and performing arts in facilitating a mind-body unity for positive health.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding Music in Healing
Poonam Bala
Chapter 1: Music and Plague: Historical Understandings
James J. Chriss
Chapter 2: Roll Back Malaria: Music and Public Health Messaging in Senegal
Bamba Ndiaye
Chapter 3: Sounding Grief in the Gulf: Religion, Slavery, and Afro-Cuban
Music in the Time of Cholera
Farren Yero
Chapter 4: Dance and the Body-Mind-Community Connection
Julia C. Basso and Noor Tasnim
Chapter 5: Rhythm, Dance and the Integrative Mode of Consciousness
Kenneth H. Wilson
Chapter 6: Chanting Chenrezig and the Medicine Buddha: Buddhism, Sound and
Healing During COVID-19
Justin Patch
Chapter 7: Rituals, Ragas and Sounds: Healing and Indian music
Poonam Bala
Chapter 8: Choir Non-Singing during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Sweden and
Norway
Töres Theorell
Chapter 9: Mindfulness, Expressive Writing, and Art: Connecting to the
Ancestors During the COVID 19 Pandemic
Renya K. Ramirez
Chapter 10: Community and Belonging in the Victorian Music Industries: Impact
of COVID-19
Fabian Cannizzo and Catherine Strong
About the Contributors
Poonam Bala is professor extraordinarius of history at University of South Africa and visiting scholar at Cleveland State University.
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