Beyond the roof of the world
Subtitle: music, prayer, and healing in the Pamir mountains
By: Benjamin D. Koen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780195367744
Subjects: Healing -- Pamir-Alain Mountains Region; Spiritual healing -- Pamir-Alain Mountains Region; Holistic medicine -- Pamir-Alain Mountains Region; Music therapy -- Pamir-Alain Mountains Region; Prayer -- Pamir-Alain Mountains Region; Music Therapy -- Tajikistan; Holistic Health -- Tajikistan; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- Tajikistan; Spiritual Therapies -- Tajikistan
Description: This work demonstrates the relevance of medical ethnomusicology in light of the globally spreading ICAM (integrative complementary, and alternative medicine) approaches to health and healing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical ethnomusicology and the ontology of oneness; title: The five factors of music, prayer, health, and healing; title: Music-prayer dynamics and cognitive flexibility; title: Soundscape and musical-spiritual entrainment; title: Healthscape, mystical poetry, and multimodal healing; title: Transformative meaning in sound, empowered sound in culture; title: Human certainty principle, of science, spirituality, and experience.