Music and the nerves, 1700-1900 / edited by James Kennaway, Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK.

Other author Kennaway, James Gordon, 1975-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Descriptionxii, 236 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 216-233) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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ISBN9781137339508
ISBN1137339500

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