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Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also has highlighted the significance of social and individual factors in people's perception of and their ability to cope with the pandemic situation globally through music. Based on inter-disciplinary themes, and contributions from highly qualified international cohort of scholars, the volume will command attention amongst historians, ethnologists, musicologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychotherapists and other scholars in arts and humanities.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding Music in Healing
Poonam Bala
Chapter 1: Music and Plague: Historical Understandings
James J. Chriss
Chapter 2: Roll Back Malaria: Music and Public Health Messaging in Senegal
Bamba Ndiaye
Chapter 3: "Sounding" Grief in the Gulf: Religion, Slavery, and Afro-Cuban Music in the Time of Cholera
Farren Yero
Chapter 4: Dance and the Body-Mind-Community Connection
Julia C. Basso and Noor Tasnim
Chapter 5: Rhythm, Dance and the Integrative Mode of Consciousness
Kenneth H. Wilson
Chapter 6: Chanting Chenrezig and the Medicine Buddha: Buddhism, Sound and Healing During COVID-19
Justin Patch
Chapter 7: Rituals, Ragas and Sounds: Healing and Indian music
Poonam Bala
Chapter 8: Choir Non-Singing during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Sweden and Norway
Töres Theorell
Chapter 9: Mindfulness, Expressive Writing, and Art: Connecting to the Ancestors During the COVID 19 Pandemic
Renya K. Ramirez
Chapter 10: Community and Belonging in the Victorian Music Industries: Impact of COVID-19
Fabian Cannizzo and Catherine Strong
About the Contributors
About the author
Poonam Bala is professor extraordinarius of history at University of South Africa and visiting scholar at Cleveland State University.
