Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum

Rosemary Golding is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University UK, where she has taught since 2009. Her research interests are centred on the social history of music in nineteenth-century Britain, specifically the status and identity of music and musicians, music as an academic subject, the music profession, and the connections between music, health, morality, and wellbeing. Among her publications are the monograph Music and Academia in Victorian Britain (2013) and the edited collection of essays The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920: New Perspectives on Status and Identity (2018).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Asylums, Moral Management, and Music.- 3. Music in the Asylum: an Overview.- .- Part I. Pauper Asylums.- 4. Norfolk County Asylum: Moral Management and the Asylum Band.- 5. West Riding Asylum: Music and Theatre in the Large-Scale Pauper Asylum.- 6. Gloucestershire County Asylum: Private, Charitable and Pauper Patients.- 7. Worcestershire County Asylum: Patients, Attendants, Officers and Professional Musicians.- 8. Brookwood Asylum: Music at the centre of Moral Therapy.- .- Part II. Private and Charitable Asylums.- 9. York Retreat: Moral Management and Music in a Quaker Context.- 10. Bethlem Hospital: Talented Staff in an Urban Setting.- 11. Barnwood House: Music in the Small Asylum.- 12. Holloway Sanatorium: The Middle-Class Experience.- Part III. Conclusion.- 13. Conclusion.