Music as Medicine. The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity

Breitenfeld, Darko; Horden, Peregrine

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“…Later, during the thirteenth century, S • afı ¯yyedı ¯n al-Urmawı ¯ (d. 1294), a famous musicologist and councilor of the last Abbassid Khalifa, published his system of twelve major makams (Bachmaier-Eksi 2014a, 120-23), which forms the basis for the makam therapy, widely practiced at medieval hospitals in the Islamicate societies. See Peregrine Horden (2000) for a detailed history of music therapy. See Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu (2015) for historical and ethnographic studies of humoral theories.…”

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Breathing Hearts

Selim

2024

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Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.

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Breathing Hearts

Selim

2024

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“…To better understand this, discussions touched on the importance of a historical understanding of musical care. This included attention to the longer histories of musical care practices (Bohlman, 2000;Brust, 2001;Gouk, 2017a;Horden, 2020;Kennaway, 2014;Koen et al, 2008;Meymandi, 2009), the development of interest in musical care practices over the past several decades, and the way in which musical care may relate to historical injustice and structural inequalities. Discussions also considered how musical care practices sit within broader, changing political economies of care and how divisions between areas of practice may reflect processes of professionalization and commoditization of culture.…”

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Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network

Spiro,

Sanfilippo,

McConnell

et al. 2023

Music & Science

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In this paper we report on the inaugural meetings of the Musical Care International Network held online in 2022. The term “musical care” is defined by Spiro and Sanfilippo (2022) as “the role of music—music listening as well as music-making—in supporting any aspect of people's developmental or health needs” (pp. 2–3). Musical care takes varied forms in different cultural contexts and involves people from different disciplines and areas of expertise. Therefore, the Musical Care International Network takes an interdisciplinary and international approach and aims to better reflect the disciplinary, geographic, and cultural diversity relevant to musical care. Forty-two delegates participated in 5 inaugural meetings over 2 days, representing 24 countries and numerous disciplines and areas of practice. Based on the meetings, the aims of this paper are to (1) better understand the diverse practices, applications, contexts, and impacts of musical care around the globe and (2) introduce the Musical Care International Network. Transcriptions of the recordings, alongside notes taken by the hosts, were used to summarise the conversations. The discussions developed ideas in three areas: (a) musical care as context-dependent and social, (b) musical care's position within the broader research and practice context, and (c) debates about the impact of and evidence for musical care. We can conclude that musical care refers to context-dependent and social phenomena. The term musical care was seen as useful in talking across boundaries while not minimizing individual disciplinary and professional expertise. The use of the term was seen to help balance the importance and place of multiple disciplines, with a role to play in the development of a collective identity. This collective identity was seen as important in advocacy and in helping to shape policy. The paper closes with proposed future directions for the network and its emerging mission statement.

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“…Music and healing were deeply embedded in group activities and were close to everyone, as were other daily rituals (Solanki et al, 2013). Historical records from different cultures indicate great similarities with Indian culture regarding the understanding of music as an important healing method (Horden, 2000;Pratt & Jones, 1987;Wigram et al, 2002). Also, back in the time of the Ancient Greeks, music was believed to have a relaxing effect on people suffering from mental disorders.…”

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Possibilities of Application of Musical Interventions

Pavlović

2023

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Throughout human history, music has been an important tool contributing to both the expression of feelings and healing. Today, its application is quite wide in both non-clinical and clinical populations. The subject of the paper is a presentation of the history, development, and definitions of music as an intervention, music therapy, and the benefits of its application in children, adolescents, the geriatric population, stress reduction, psychotherapy, the treatment of neurological disorders, and pain therapy. In order to analyze the benefits of applying music as an intervention, a literature review was done. In addition, musical interventions were divided into diagnostic and preventive. It can be concluded that with the established research and clinical paradigms and taking into account the limitations of previous studies, a scientific basis for further academic research is provided. Additional guidelines for more intensive and beneficial incorporation of musical interventions in the previously mentioned areas were provided.

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Music as Medicine. The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity

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