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Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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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.
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