The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology

Edited by Benjamin Koen, Associate editors: Jacqueline Lloyd, Gregory Barz, and Karen Brummel-Smith

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.

CONTENIDO:

1: Benjamin D. 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 D. 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: Building Community Within the Healthcare Environment: Marrying Art and Technology
19: Benjamin D. 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 D. 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