Gioia Healing Songs

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8767-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

The use of music in helaing from prehisotirc times to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gioia, Ted

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Andere zeitgenössische Musikrichtungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

1. The Rhythm Within 1

2. The Incantation 18

3. Native American Healing Songs 34

4. The Shaman 49

5. Orpheus the Shaman 69

6. The Harmony of the Spheres 89

7. Music and the Medical Practitioner 109

8. Music Therapy 124

9. From Singing Bowls to Sonic Birth 142

10. Reclaiming the Drum 158

11. Do Healing Songs Work? 170

Notes 183

Recommended Listening 211

Bibliography 215

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Ted Gioia, pianist, composer, and one of the founders of Stanford University’s Jazz Studies program, is the author of Work Songs, also published by Duke University Press, as well as several celebrated books, including West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945–1960. His book The History of Jazz was selected as one of the best books of the year by Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post, chosen as a notable book of the year by the New York Times, and honored with the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ award for best nonfiction work of the year. His book The Imperfect Art won the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award and was named a Jazz Book of the Century by the Jazz Educators Journal. He has recorded several compact discs as a leader, including The End of the Open Road and Tango Cool.