James Kennaway

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The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease

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Produktbeschreibung

Music has been used as a cure for disease, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317176466
• Artikelnr.: 49353660

Autorenporträt

James Kennaway is a historian of medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Medicine and Health at Durham University. He specializes in the relationship between music, aesthetics and the body, with broad research interests in the history of physical and mental illness.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: musical orders and disorders
From sensibility to pathology: nervous music, 1700-1850
Modern music and nervous modernity: Wagnerism as a disease of civilization, 1850-1914
Pathological music, politics and race: Germany and the United States, 1900-45
Music as mind control, music as weapon: pathological music since 1945
Bibliography
Index.