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Book SynopsisThe 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. This volume sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and music, putting the advances of our era into context.
Trade Review“It provides an excellent introduction to some of the major ideas about music and the body. … Kennaway accomplishes much by asking his readers to engage with this material through the prism of music and the nerves, and this collection makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of historical studies focusing on music and neuroscience. The book will be of great interest to music scholars and historians of science, and will also appeal to neuroscientists and music cognition researchers.” (Carmel Raz, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 29 (3), August, 2016)
"...interesting and thought-provoking" - Medical History
Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Long History of Neurology and Music; James Kennaway 2. (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) 'Pictures in the Mind': A Personal Account; George Rousseau 3. Music and the Nerves in English Medical Thought, 1586-1777; Penelope Gouk 4. Music and Humanity in the French Enlightenment; Ingrid Sykes 5. Music Therapy in Eighteenth Century Spain: Perspectives and Critiques; Pilar León-Sanz 6. 'The Passionate Power of Music': 'Subsiding Passions' and the Polite Arts of Healing in the British Enlightenment; Aris Sarafianos 7. Music as a Tool in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Neurology; Julene Johnson and Amy Graziano 8. Origin Stories of Listening, Melody, and Survival at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Alexandra Hui 9. Physical Distortion, Emotion and Subjectivity: Musical Virtuosity and Body Anxiety; Wiebke Thormählen
