Bad vibrations
Subtitle: the history of the idea of music as cause of disease
By: James Kennaway
Series: History of medicine in context
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409426424; 9781409426431
Subjects: Psychological aspects; Music; Physiological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: musical orders and disorders; title: From sensibility to pathology: nervous music (1700-1850); title: Modern music and nervous modernity: Wagnerism as a disease of civilization (1850-1914); title: Pathological music, politics and race: Germany and the United States (1900-45); title: Music as mind-control, music as weapon: pathological music since 1945.