The Oxford handbook of medical ethnomusicology / edited by Benjamin D. Koen ; with Jacqueline Lloyd, Gregory Barz, and Karen Brummel-Smith, associate editors.

Medical ethnomusicology

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

xi, 556 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series from jacket.

A fourfold framework for cross-cultural, integrative research on music and medicine / Marina Roseman -- Religion, spirituality, and healing : research, dialogue, and directions / Harold G. Koenig -- Art, culture, and pediatric mental and behavioral health : an interdisciplinary, public health approach / Michael L. Penn and Philip Kojo Clarke -- Music-prayer-meditation dynamics in healing / Benjamin D. Koen -- Healing through flexibility primers / Devon Hinton -- The performance of HIV/AIDS in Uganda : medical ethnomusicology and cultural memory / Gregory Barz -- Alzheimer's disease and the promise of music and culture as a healing process / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- Music therapy evidence-based outcomes in dementia care : a way to better life quality for those with Alzheimer's disease and their families / Alicia Ann Clair -- Songwriting and transcending institutional boundaries in the nursing home / Theresa A. Allison -- Preventive care for the dead : music, community, and the protection of souls in Balinese cremation ceremonies / Michael B. Bakan -- The application of Hood's nine levels to the practice of music therapy / Michael Rohrbacher -- Music and the meditative mind : toward a science of the ineffable / Karen Brummel-Smith -- Shamanism, music, and healing in two contrasting South American cultural areas / Dale A. Olsen -- Therapeutic dimensions of music in Islamic culture / Jean During -- Homeopathic healing with music / Rajan Sankaran -- Effects of music on human health and wellness : physiological measurements and research design / Therese West and Gail Ironson -- Building community within the health-care environment : marrying art and technology / Jay Klein and John Graham-Pole -- Personhood consciousness : a child-ability-centered approach to socio-musical healing and autism spectrum "disorders" / Benjamin D. Koen ... [et al.] -- The Lakota hoop dance as medicine for social healing / Kevin Locke and Benjamin D. Koen -- The educator's role in cultural healing and the sacred space of the world music classroom / Léonie E. Naylor and Michael L. Naylor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.