Music and the Nerves, 1700-1900

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: The Long History of Neurology and Music

   • James Kennaway

   Pages 1-17

3. (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) ‘Pictures in the Mind’: A Personal Account

   • George Rousseau

   Pages 18-43

4. Music and the Nervous System in Eighteenth-Century British Medical Thought

   • Penelope Gouk

   Pages 44-71

5. Le corps sonore: Music and the Auditory Body in France 1780–1830

   • Ingrid J. Sykes

   Pages 72-97

6. Music Therapy in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Perspectives and Critiques

   • Pilar León-Sanz

   Pages 98-117

7. ‘Subsiding Passions’ and the Polite Arts of Healing: Music and Images of the Medical Profession in ‘Moderate Enlightenment’

   • Aris Sarafianos

   Pages 118-151

8. Music as a Tool in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Neurology

   • Amy B. Graziano, Julene K. Johnson

   Pages 152-169

9. Origin Stories of Listening, Melody and Survival at the End of the Nineteenth Century

   • Alexandra Hui

   Pages 170-190

10. Physical Distortion, Emotion and Subjectivity: Musical Virtuosity and Body Anxiety

    • Wiebke Thormählen

    Pages 191-215

11. Back Matter

    Pages 216-236

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The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and music, putting the advances of our era into context.

• Music
• neurology
• nerves
• aesthetics
• brain
• history of medicine
• modern history
• sound
• history of emotions
• history
• nervous system

“It provides an excellent introduction to some of the major ideas about music and the body. … Kennaway accomplishes much by asking his readers to engage with this material through the prism of music and the nerves, and this collection makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of historical studies focusing on music and neuroscience. The book will be of great interest to music scholars and historians of science, and will also appeal to neuroscientists and music cognition researchers.” (Carmel Raz, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 29 (3), August, 2016)

"...interesting and thought-provoking" - Medical History

• Newcastle University, UK

  James Kennaway

Professor George Rousseau, Oxford University, UK Dr. Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester, UK Dr. Ingrid J. Sykes, La Trobe University, Australia Dr. Pilar León-Sanz, University of Navarra, Spain Dr. Aris Sarafianos, University of Ioannina, Greece Professor Julene K Johnson, University of California, USA Professor Amy Graziano, Chapman University, USA Dr. Alix Hui, Mississippi State University, USA Dr. Wiebke Thormählen, Royal College of Music, UK

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