Musical healing in cultural contexts / edited by Penelope Gouk.

Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, [2000], ©2000.

xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index and bibliography: p. [197]-216.

Introduction / Penelope Gouk -- Bodies of sound and landscapes of music : a view from the Bolivian Andes / Henry Stobart -- Theories of music in African ngoma healing / John M. Janzen -- Dancing the disease : music and trance in Tumbuka healing / Steven M. Friedson -- 'Spiritual medicine' : music and healing in Islam and its influence in Western medicine / Charles Burnett -- The inflected voice : attraction and curative properties / George Rousseau -- 'No pill's gonna cure my ill' : gender, erotic melancholy, and traditions of musical healing in the modern West / Linda Phyllis Austern -- Soul music as exemplified in nineteenth-century German psychiatry / Cheryce Kramer -- The dancing nurse : kalela drums and the history of hygiene in Africa / Lyn Schumaker -- Sister disciplines? Music and medicine in historical perspective / Penelope Gouk.