Bad vibrations the history of the idea of music as a cause of disease
Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's Iyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate
2012
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| Colección: | The history of medicine in context
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
