Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts

• Contents: Introduction, Penelope Gouk; Bodies of sound and landscapes of music: a view from the Bolivian Andes, Henry Stobart; Theories of music in African ngoma healing, John M. Janzen; Dancing the disease: music and trance in Tumbuka healing, Steven M. Friedson; ’Spiritual medicine’: music and healing in Islam and its influence in Western medicine, Charles Burnett; The inflected voice: attraction and curative properties, George Rousseau; ’No pill’s gonna cure my ill’: gender, erotic melancholy, and traditions of musical healing in the modern West, Linda Phyllis Austern; Soul music as exemplified in nineteenth-century German psychiatry, Cheryce Kramer; The dancing nurse: kalela drums and the history of hygiene in Africa, Lyn Schumaker; Sister disciplines?: Music and Medicine in historical perspective, Penelope Gouk; Bibliography; Index.

'...there is no doubt that, for some years to come, Musical Healing and Music as Medicine will both represent the indispensable point of reference for any reader who wishes to be fully informed and kept up to date with the relationship between the art of medicine and the art of sound.' Medicina & Storia, no. 2, 2001