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Discusses the role of music in shamanic practice, the history and applications of Western music therapy, the contributions of ethnomusicology to healing ritual practices, and the potential for adapting music-healing practices into modern music therapy and medical interventions.
The International Musical Society in Berlin in 1899 acted as one of the first centers for ethnomusicology. [1] Comparative musicology and early ethnomusicology tended to focus on non-Western music, but in more recent years, the field has expanded to embrace the study of Western music from an ethnographic standpoint.
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Historically music therapy developed as a post-war practice along with many other therapies in the allied health field such as Occupational Therapy, and Speech and Language Therapy.
20 March 2016. Keywords: music, medicine, ethnomusic therapy, medical ethnomusicology, music therapy, healing, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, music education, community group improvisation. Abstract. “Ethnomusic therapy” and medical ethnomusicology are emerging subdisciplines in the.
Dec 5, 2017 · Medical Ethnomusicology. The term medical refers to that which increases health, well-being, balance or wholeness; facilitates healing or cure; and redounds to the well-being of the individual, group, society or humanity. It is not limited to a conventional biomedical or mechanistic definition.
- Benjamin D. Koen
- 2018
While the connection between music and medicine has long been recognized [1], the field of medical ethnomusicology only truly began to take shape under its present title in the 1990s. In 2008, The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology, “the first edited volume expressive of medical ethnomusicology and its potential” (3) was published.
Jan 1, 1995 · The National Association for Music Therapy and the first university degree program in music therapy in the United States were both established in 1950. Yet, in that brief period, the field of music therapy has ex- perienced phenomenal growth.
