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Beyond the Roof of the World

Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains

Benjamin D. Koen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-536774-4 (ISBN)

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Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion into distinct entities, yet traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects and balances the physical with the spiritual to promote health and healing. As people in even the most technologically advanced nations across the globe struggle with obtaining affordable and reliable healthcare, more and more people are now turning to these ancient cultural practices of holistic and ICAM healing (integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine). Beyond the Roof of the World convincingly demonstrates the relevance of medical ethnomusicology in light of the globally spreading ICAM approaches to health and healing. Revealing the Western separation of healing from spiritual and musical practices as a culturally determined phenomenon, Dr. Benjamin D. Koen confirms their underlying unity. In a place poetically known as the Roof of the World, the culture found within the towering Pamir Mountains of Badakhshan Tajikistan serves as the paradigm of ICAM healing practices.
Koen's extensive research and immersion into the Badakhshani culture provides a well-balanced "insider" perspective while maintaining an "observer's" view, as he effectively bridges the widespread gaps between ethnomusicology, health science, and music therapy. Moving beyond the paradigm of the Pamir Mountains to reach out to cultures across the globe, Koen infuses scholarship with lived experience and applied practice as he shows spirituality and musicality to be intimately intertwined with one's physical life, health and healing.

Benjamin D. Koen is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Florida State University College of Music. He specializes in medical, cognitive, and applied ethnomusicology, and has pioneered new directions in musical healing, prayer and meditation research and practice. He is a widely published author, performer and recording artist, and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology (OUP).

Language ; Pronunciation and Transliteration ; 1. Medical Ethnomusicology and the Ontology of Oneness ; 2. The Five Factors of Music, Prayer, Health, and Healing ; 3. Music-Prayer Dynamics and Cognitive Flexibility ; 4. Soundscape and Musical-Spiritual Entrainment ; 5. Healthscape, Mystical Poetry, and Multimodal Healing ; 6. Transformative Meaning In Sound, Empowered Sound In Culture ; 7. Human Certainty Principle, of Science, Spirituality, and Experience ; Notes ; References ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.2009
Zusatzinfo	28 halftones, 14 line illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-536774-X / 019536774X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-536774-4 / 9780195367744
Zustand	Neuware