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Music and the nerves, 1700-1900 / edited by James Kennaway, Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK.
- Title
- Music and the nerves, 1700-1900 / edited by James Kennaway, Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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- Additional Authors
- Kennaway, James Gordon, 1975-
- Description
- xii, 236 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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. Particularly since the seventeenth century, natural philosophers and music theorists have often prefigured much of the contemporary debate about music and the nervous system. Crucially, music came to be seen less as a microcosm of cosmic order and more as a question of the sensual stimulation of the nervous system. Musical aesthetics has at times rebelled against this materialist approach and asserted a transcendental view of music's effects, but even here the influence of 'neuromusic' can be seen. This volume sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and music, putting the advances of our era into context. Book jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : The long history of neurology and music / James Kennaway -- (Nervously) grappling with (musical) 'pictures in the mind' : a personal account / George Rousseau -- Music and the nervous system in eighteenth-century British medical thought / Penelope Gouk -- Le corps sonore : music and the auditory body in France 1780-1830 / Ingrid J. Sykes -- Music therapy in eighteenth-century Spain : perspectives and critiques / Pilar León-Sanz -- 'Subsiding passions' and the polite arts of healing : music and images of the medical profession in 'moderate enlightenment' / Aris Sarafianos -- Music as a tool in the development of nineteenth-century neurology / Amy B. Graziano and Julene K. Johnson -- Origin stories of listening, melody and survival at the end of the nineteenth century / Alexandra Hui -- Physical distortion, emotion and subjectivity : musical virtuosity and body anxiety / Wiebke Thormählen.
- ISBN
- 9781137339508
- 1137339500
- OCLC
- 892160697
- SCSB-10480530
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library