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Taking a cue from Erving Goffman's classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and - critically - to opportunities for aesthetic experience. The book presents music as an active ingredient of action, identity, capacity and consciousness. Intended for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry and psychology, palliative care, socio-music studies, music psychology and the allied health professions, Music Asylums showcases music's role in the existential project of being and staying well, mentally and physically.
Table des matières
Contents: Preface; Introduction; In sickness and in health: defining the ecological perspective; Learning from Erving Goffman, part I: agency and culture; Learning from Erving Goffman part II: reconfiguring the concept of asylum; Music asylums, part I: disconnections, reconnections and removal; Music asylums, part II: making musical space together, furnishing and refurnishing worlds; Musicalizing consciousness: aesthetics and anaesthetics; Where is good music?; Conclusion: what makes us well and when? And how to know if music helps?; References; Index.
A propos de l'auteur
Tia DeNora is Professor of Sociology of Music, in Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at Exeter University, UK. She is the author of Music-in-Action, Music in Everyday Life, After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology and Beethoven and the Construction of Genius. She directs the SocArts Research Group at Exeter.
Résumé
Taking a cue from Erving Goffman's classic work, Asylums, the author develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, she argues that these identities are by no means mutually exclusive.
