Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900 [electronic resource] /
Kennaway, James.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: The Long History of Neurology and Music; 2 (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) 'Pictures in the Mind': A Personal Account; 3 Music and the Nervous System in Eighteenth-Century British Medical Thought; 4 Le corps sonore: Music and the Auditory Body in France 1780-1830; 5 Music Therapy in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Perspectives and Critiques; 6 'Subsiding Passions' and the Polite Arts of Healing: Music and Images of the Medical Profession in 'Moderate Enlightenment'
7 Music as a Tool in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Neurology8 Origin Stories of Listening, Melody and Survival at the End of the Nineteenth Century; 9 Physical Distortion, Emotion and Subjectivity: Musical Virtuosity and Body Anxiety; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
World history.
History.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Neurology.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Science.
Social History.
Modern History.
Neurology.