Music and the Nerves, 1700-1900

2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-46447-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and music, putting the advances of our era into context.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennaway, J.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Long History of Neurology and Music; James Kennaway 2. (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) 'Pictures in the Mind': A Personal Account; George Rousseau 3. Music and the Nerves in English Medical Thought, 1586-1777; Penelope Gouk 4. Music and Humanity in the French Enlightenment; Ingrid Sykes 5. Music Therapy in Eighteenth Century Spain: Perspectives and Critiques; Pilar León-Sanz 6. 'The Passionate Power of Music': 'Subsiding Passions' and the Polite Arts of Healing in the British Enlightenment; Aris Sarafianos 7. Music as a Tool in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Neurology; Julene Johnson and Amy Graziano 8. Origin Stories of Listening, Melody, and Survival at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Alexandra Hui 9. Physical Distortion, Emotion and Subjectivity: Musical Virtuosity and Body Anxiety; Wiebke Thormählen

Über Autor(innen)

Professor George Rousseau, Oxford University, UK Dr. Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester, UK Dr. Ingrid J. Sykes, La Trobe University, Australia Dr. Pilar León-Sanz, University of Navarra, Spain Dr. Aris Sarafianos, University of Ioannina, Greece Professor Julene K Johnson, University of California, USA Professor Amy Graziano, Chapman University, USA Dr. Alix Hui, Mississippi State University, USA Dr. Wiebke Thormählen, Royal College of Music, UK