Author: James Kennaway
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1409426424
Category: Medical
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1409426424
Category: Medical
Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music As Cause of Disease (The History of Medicine in Context)
Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's Iyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. Download Bad Vibrations medical books for free.
At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Get Bad Vibrations our bestseller medical books.
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At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet
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