The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology
Edited by Benjamin Koen, Jacqueline Lloyd, Gregory Barz and Edited by Karen Brummel-Smith
Series : Oxford Handbooks
Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform our experiences of health and
healing, illness and disease, life and death. The power of music to create health and healing at the individual, community, and societal levels is not only linked to these domains of human life, but is intimately interwoven with the ever present and multifaceted frame of culture, which is often
where meaning lies, and is a key factor that creates or inhibits efficacy.
The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology appeals to all those interested in music, medicine, and culture, and represents a new stage of collaborative discourse among researchers and practitioners who embrace
and incorporate knowledge from a diversity of fields. Importantly, such knowledge, by definition, spans the globe of traditional cultural practices of music, spirituality, and medicine, including biomedical, integrative, complementary, and alternative models; is rooted in new physics, philosophy,
psychology, sociology, cognitive science, linguistics, medical anthropology, and of course, music, dance, and all the healing arts.
The book is more than the first collected volume to establish the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and express its broad potential; it is also an
expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts. The authors encourage the development of this new paradigm through an openness to and engagement of knowledge from diverse research areas and domains of
human life conventionally viewed as disparate, yet laden with potential benefits for an improved or vibrant quality of life, prevention of illness and disease, even cure and healing.
Readership : Scholars, researchers, educators, practitioners from a variety of fields (including ethnomusicology and music therapy),professional performers, general music readers
1. Benjamin Koen, Gregory Barz, Kenneth Brummel-Smith: Confluence of Consciousness in Music, Medicine, and Culture
2. Marina Roseman: A Fourfold Framework for Producing Sociohistorically Specific, Clinically Relevant, Cross-Culturally Resonant, and Biomedically Viable Research on Music and
Medicine
3. Harold G. Koenig: Religion, Spirituality, and Healing: Research, Dialogue, and Directions
4. Michael L. Penn and Philip Kojo Clarke: Art, Culture, and Pediatric Mental & Behavioral Health: An Interdisciplinary, Public Health Approach
5. Benjamin Koen: Music-Prayer-Meditation
Dynamics in Healing
6. Devon Hinton: Healing Through Flexibility Primers: Examples from Indonesia, the United States, and Northeastern Thailand
7. Gregory Barz: The Performance of HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Medical Ethnomusicology and Cultural Memory
8. Kenneth Brummel-Smith: Alzheimer's
Disease and the Promise of Music and Culture as a Healing Process: The Need for a Unifying Theory
9. Alicia Ann Clair: Music Therapy Evidence-Based Outcomes in Dementia Care: A Way to Better Life Quality for Those with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Families
10. Theresa A. Allison:
Songwriting in the Nursing Home: Transcending the Boundaries of Institutionalization through Music
11. Michael B. Bakan: Preventive Care for the Dead: Beleganjur Music and the Communal Care of Souls in Balinese Cremation Ceremonies
12. Michael Rohrbacher: The Application of Hood's Nine
Levels to the Practice of Music Therapy
13. Karen Brummel-Smith: Music and the Meditative Mind: Toward a Science of the Ineffable
14. Dale A. Olsen: Cosmological Dialogues and Celestial Battles: Shamanism, Music, and Healing in Two Contrasting South American Cultural Areas
15. Jean
During: Therapeutic Dimensions of Music in Islamic Culture
16. Rajan Sankaran: Homoeopathic Healing With Music
17. Therese West and Gail Ironson: Effects of Music for Human Health and Wellness: Physiological Measurements and Research Design
18. Jay Klein, John Graham-Pole, Matthew
Beiler, Jill Sonke-Henderson, and Jolie Haun: Building Community Within the Healthcare Environment: Marrying Art and Technology
19. Benjamin Koen, Michael B. Bakan, Fred Kobylarz, Lindee Morgan, Rachel Goff, Sally Kahn, Megan Bakan: Personhood Consciousness: A Child-Ability Centerd Approach to
Socio-Musical Healing and Autism Spectrum "Disorders"
20. Kevin Locke and Benjamin Koen: The Lakota Hoop Dance as Medicine for Social Healing
21. Léonie E. Naylor and Michael L. Naylor: The Educator's Role in Cultural Healing and the Sacred Space of the World Music Classroom
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Benjamin Koen is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Xiamen University. Dr. Koen is widely published and author of the book Beyond the Roof of the World: Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains (OUP). Jacqueline Lloyd is a Professor of Medicine and Education Director of Geriatrics
at Florida State University College of Medicine. Gregory Barz is an Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), Vanderbilt University, and author of Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania (2003), Music in East Africa (OUP, 2005), and Singing For Life:
Songs of Hope, Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (2005). He is also co-editor with Timothy J. Cooley of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (OUP, second edition, 2008) and co-editor with Judah Cohen of The Cultural of AIDS in Afri ca: Hope and Healing Through Music
and the Arts (OUP, forthcoming). He produced the CD Singing For Life, on the Smithsonian Folkways label, which was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for the Best Traditional World Music Album. Karen Brummel-Smith is a family physician, writer and singer. She teaches Narrative Medicine at the
Florida State University College of Medicine.
Making Sense - Margot Northey and Joan McKibbin
Music in East Africa - Gregory Barz
Shadows in the Field - Gregory F. Barz and Timothy J. Cooley
The Culture of AIDS in Africa - Edited by Gregory Barz and Illustrated by Judah M. Cohen
Special Features
- Ethnomusicology Organizations: Society for Ethnomusicology, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, College Music Society, International Council for Traditional Music. Music Therapy Associations: American Music Therapy Association, Australian Music Therapy Association, Canadian Association for
Music Therapy, British Society for Music Therapy, World Federation for Music Therapy, European Music Therapy Confederation, European Association of Music Therapy Students.
- Medicine: American Geriatrics Society, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, American Holistic Medical
Association, American Holistic Health Association, American Nursing Association. Anthropology / Sociology: American Anthropological Association: Society for Medical Anthropology, American Sociological Association: Medical Sociology Section. Publications: Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology,
Prevention, Spirituality and Health, Journal of the American Geriatrics.
- Society: The Lancet or The Lancet.com, Journal of Music Therapy and/or Music Therapy Perspectives, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Culture, Medicine, and
Psychiatry.
- Cross-disciplinary project which speaks to researchers and practitioners in ethnomusicology, music therapy, the health sciences, and alternative medicine.
- Offers a snapshot of this fascinating and rapidly growing new field.
