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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 lyre, 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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2016.
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| Collection: | History of medicine in context.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Musical Orders and Disorders
- 2 From Sensibility to Pathology: Nervous Music, 1700-1850
- 3 Modern Music and Nervous Modernity: Wagnerism as a Disease of Civilization, 1850-1914
- 4 Pathological Music, Politics and Race: Germany and the United States, 1900-1945
- 5 Music as Mind Control, Music as Weapon: Pathological Music Since 1945
- Bibliography
- Index.