Poonam Bala is professor extraordinarius of history at University of South Africa and visiting scholar at Cleveland State University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Music in HealingPoonam BalaChapter 1: Music and Plague: Historical UnderstandingsJames J. ChrissChapter 2: Roll Back Malaria: Music and Public Health Messaging in SenegalBamba NdiayeChapter 3: “Sounding” Grief in the Gulf: Religion, Slavery, and Afro-Cuban Music in the Time of Cholera Farren YeroChapter 4: Dance and the Body-Mind-Community ConnectionJulia C. Basso and Noor TasnimChapter 5: Rhythm, Dance and the Integrative Mode of ConsciousnessKenneth H. WilsonChapter 6: Chanting Chenrezig and the Medicine Buddha: Buddhism, Sound and Healing During COVID-19Justin PatchChapter 7: Rituals, Ragas and Sounds: Healing and Indian music Poonam BalaChapter 8: Choir Non-Singing during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Sweden and NorwayTöres TheorellChapter 9: Mindfulness, Expressive Writing, and Art: Connecting to the Ancestors During the COVID 19 PandemicRenya K. RamirezChapter 10: Community and Belonging in the Victorian Music Industries: Impact of COVID-19 Fabian Cannizzo and Catherine StrongAbout the Contributors

“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.”