In this wide-ranging exploration of music and its capacity to heal, June Boyce-Tillman sets out a concept of disease as imbalance and offers a model of healing which uses music as a means of creating rebalance. She defines person hood as encompassing a variety of ways of knowing, including the non-verbal and intuitive as well as the scientific and rational. Drawing on literature from philosophy, anthropology, psychology and music, Boyce-Tillman looks at musical traditions and notions of healing in different societies. Her work includes a number of case studies in various cultures - spirit possession cults in Africa, the Javanese Court Bedhaya Dance tradition, shamans among American Indian Tribes, and Tantric beliefs - and an exploration of contemporary New Age practice. The use of music in psychiatric medicine and in education is also studied, as Boyce-Tillman draws together a theory of what actually occurs during music therapy.
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musical healing, improvisatory traditions, overtone chanting, spirit possession cults, wider cosmos, music therapy, musical freedom, publicity leaflet, sleeve notes, music therapists, musical meaning, shamanic cultures, involving music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Age, South Africa, Hildegard of Bingen, Anthony Rooley, Paul Robertson, Anthony Kemp, Black Elk, Gabrielle Roth, Jill Purce, Leslie Bunt, New Zealand, Peter Hamel, Anthony Storr, John Rahn, Middle Ages, Terry Riley, Western Enlightenment, Carl Rogers, David Aldridge, Frankie Armstrong, Nicholas Cook, Sun Dance, The Musical Temperament, Amelia Oldfield, Andrew Blake New!
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Deep in the desert there lives an old woman. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
musical healing, improvisatory traditions, overtone chanting, spirit possession cults, wider cosmos, music therapy, musical freedom, publicity leaflet, sleeve notes, music therapists, musical meaning, shamanic cultures, involving music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Age, South Africa, Hildegard of Bingen, Anthony Rooley, Paul Robertson, Anthony Kemp, Black Elk, Gabrielle Roth, Jill Purce, Leslie Bunt, New Zealand, Peter Hamel, Anthony Storr, John Rahn, Middle Ages, Terry Riley, Western Enlightenment, Carl Rogers, David Aldridge, Frankie Armstrong, Nicholas Cook, Sun Dance, The Musical Temperament, Amelia Oldfield, Andrew Blake New!
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- Health and Education (The Works of Charles Kingsley (28 Volumes)) by Charles Kingsley on 8 pages
- Music Therapy in Health and Education by Margaret Heal on 7 pages
- The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society through Musical Energy by David Tame on 4 pages
- Music Therapy: An Art Beyond Words by Leslie Bunt on page 203, page 236, and Back Matter
- Altered State, Updated Edition: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House (A Five Star Title) by Matthew Collin on page 188, and Back Matter
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- The Handbook of Music Therapy by Leslie Bunt in Back Matter
- Music, Music Therapy and Trauma: International Perspectives by Julie P. Sutton in Front Matter
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