Description
| Product ID: | 9783030785246 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective |
| Title: | Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum |
| Authors: | Author: Rosemary Golding |
| Page Count: | 369 |
| Subjects: | Music, Music, European history, Social and cultural history, History of medicine, British & Irish history, Social & cultural history, History of medicine |
| Description: | This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources to investigate the debates around moral management, entertainment, and music for patients, as well as the wider context of music and mental health. In the second part, a series of case studies bring to life the characters and contexts involved in asylum music, selected from a range of public and private institutions. From asylum bands to chapel choirs, smoking concerts to orchestras, the rich variety of musical activity presents new perspectives on music in everyday life. Aspects such as employment practices, musicians'' networks and the purchase and maintenance of musical instruments illuminate the ''business'' of music as part of moral management. As a source of entertainment and occupation, a means of solace and self-control, and as a device for social gatherings and contact with the outside world, the place of music in the asylum offers valuable insight into its uses and meanings in nineteenth-century England. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-02 |
