Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

by Tia DeNora

Book Overview

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman's classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and - critically - to opportunities for aesthetic experience. The book presents music as an active ingredient of action, identity, capacity and consciousness. Intended for scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472455983
• ISBN13: 9781472455987
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"