Overview
- 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.
- 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.
- Presents a series of case studies which bring to life the characters and contexts involved in asylum music, selected from a range of public and private institutions
Part of the book series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective (MHHP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Music, Health and Asylum Practice
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Case Studies: Pauper Asylums
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Case Studies: Private and Charitable Asylums
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Conclusion
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James Kennaway, Senior Research Fellow, University of Roehampton, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum
Authors: Rosemary Golding
Series Title: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78525-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78524-6Published: 02 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78527-7Published: 03 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78525-3Published: 01 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6036
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6044
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 369
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Music, History of Medicine