The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology

Bibliographic Data

ID8094399
AuthorsGregory Barz, Jacqueline Lloyd
EditorsBenjamin D Koen (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages570
Publication date2011-04-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199756261.001.0001
OpenAlexW1553803341
Open LibraryOL27661832M
ISBN9780199756261
LanguageEN
Citations received44

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology covers topics related to music, medicine, and culture, and represents a new stage of collaborative discourse among researchers and practitioners who embrace and incorporate knowledge from a diversity of fields. Importantly, such knowledge, by definition, spans the globe of traditional cultural practices of music, spirituality, and medicine, including biomedical, integrative, complementary, and alternative models. Medical ethnomusicology is rooted in new physics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, linguistics, medical anthropology, and of course, music, dance, and all the healing arts. The book establishes the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and expresses its broad potential; it is also an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts. The articles encourage the development of this new paradigm through an openness to and engagement of knowledge from diverse research areas and domains of human life conventionally viewed as disparate, yet laden with potential benefits for an improved or vibrant quality of life, prevention of illness and disease, even cure and healing

Art · Ethnomusicology · Musical · Visual arts · Diverse Musicological Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Alternative medicine · Music therapy