Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472455987)

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman's classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and - critically - to opportunities for aesthetic experience. The book presents music as an active ingredient of action, identity, capacity and consciousness. Intended for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry and psychology, palliative care, socio-music studies, music psychology and the allied health professions, Music Asylums showcases music's role in the existential project of being and staying well, mentally and physically.

Author: Tia Denora
ISBN-10: 1472455983
ISBN-13: 9781472455987
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2015
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d