The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology

by Koen, Benjamin; Lloyd, Jacqueline; Barz, Gregory; Brummel-Smith, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780195337075
• ISBN10: 0195337077
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform our experiences of health and healing, illness and disease, life and death. The power of music to create health and healing at the individual, community, and societal levels is not only linked to these domains of human life, but is intimately interwoven with the ever present and multifaceted frame of culture, which is often where meaning lies, and is a key factor that creates or inhibits efficacy. l The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology appeals to all those interested in music, medicine, and culture, and represents a new stage of collaborative discourse among researchers and practitioners who embrace and incorporate knowledge from a diversity of fields. Importantly, such knowledge, by definition, spans the globe of traditional cultural practices of music, spirituality, and medicine, including biomedical, integrative, complementary, and alternative models; is rooted in new physics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, linguistics, medical anthropology, and of course, music, dance, and all the healing arts. The book is more than the first collected volume to establish the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and express its broad potential; it is also an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts. The authors encourage the development of this new paradigm through an openness to and engagement of knowledge from diverse research areas and domains of human life conventionally viewed as disparate, yet laden with potential benefits for an improved or vibrant quality of life, prevention of illness and disease, even cure and healing.

Author Biography

Benjamin D. Koen, Editor, is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Florida State University College of Music. Dr. Koen specializes in medical, cognitive, and applied ethnomusicology, approaching music, health, and healing from a holistic perspective--engaging the biological, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual factors that comprise healthy, preventive, and curative practices. He is widely published and author of the book Beyond the Roof of the World: Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains (OUP). Dr. Koen has pioneered new directions in musical healing, prayer and meditation research and practice, and has performed in over 30 countries as an acclaimed musician and improviser.
Jacqueline Lloyd, Associate Editor, is Professor of Medicine and Education Director of Geriatrics, Florida State University College of Medicine. She has a long and distinguished career in medical education and has served on national forums addressing problems of aging. Dr. Lloyd's research concerns rehabilitation in care of the elderly, collaborative multidisciplinary health initiatives, geriatric medical education and curriculum development, and cultural competence.
Gregory Barz, Associate Editor, is Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), Vanderbilt University, and author of Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania (2003), Music in East Africa (OUP, 2005), and Singing For Life: Songs of Hope, Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (2005). He is also co-editor with Timothy J. Cooley of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (OUP, second edition, 2008). He produced the CD Singing For Life, on the Smithsonian Folkways label, which was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for the Best Traditional World Music Album.
Karen Brummel-Smith, Associate Editor, is a family physician, writer and singer. A diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, Dr. Brummel-Smith is actively engaged in the study of many complementary healing arts modalities. She has produced and performed several one-woman vocal performances and is currently teaching Narrative Medicine at the Florida State University College of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Confluence of Consciousness in Music, Medicine, and Culture	p. 3
A Fourfold Framework for Cross-Cultural, Integrative Research on Music and Medicine	p. 18
Religion, Spirituality, and Healing: Research, Dialogue, and Directions	p. 46
Art, Culture, and Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health: An Interdisciplinary, Public Health Approach	p. 72
Music-Prayer-Meditation Dynamics in Healing	p. 93
Healing through Flexibility Primers	p. 121
The Performance of HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Medical Ethnomusicology and Cultural Memory	p. 164
Alzheimer's Disease and the Promise of Music and Culture as a Healing Process	p. 185
Music Therapy Evidence-Based Outcomes in Dementia Care: Better Life Quality for Those with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Families	p. 201
Songwriting and Transcending Institutional Boundaries in the Nursing Home	p. 218
Preventive Care for the Dead: Music, Community, and the Protection of Souls in Balinese Cremation Ceremonies	p. 246
The Application of Hood's Nine Levels to the Practice of Music Therapy	p. 265
Music and the Meditative Mind: Toward a Science of the Ineffable	p. 308
Shamanism, Music, and Healing in Two Contrasting South American Cultural Areas	p. 331
Therapeutic Dimensions of Music in Islamic Culture	p. 361
Homeopathic Healing with Music	p. 393
Effects of Music on Human Health and Wellness: Physiological Measurements and Research Design	p. 410
Building Community within the Health-Care Environment: Marrying Art and Technology	p. 444
Personhood Consciousness: A Child-Ability-Centered Approach to Sociomusical Healing and Autism Spectrum "Disorders"	p. 461
The Lakota Hoop Dance as Medicine for Social Healing	p. 482
The Educator's Role in Cultural Healing and the Sacred Space of the World Music Classroom	p. 500
Contributors	p. 539
Index	p. 541
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