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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About this book
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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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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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Reviews
“This thorough and detailed book really gets into the nitty-gritty of the uses of music in English asylums in the period. A very valuable addition to the literature on music and medicine.”
James Kennaway, Senior Research Fellow, University of Roehampton, UK
James Kennaway, Senior Research Fellow, University of Roehampton, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rosemary Golding is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University UK, where she has taught since 2009. Her research interests are centred on the social history of music in nineteenth-century Britain, specifically the status and identity of music and musicians, music as an academic subject, the music profession, and the connections between music, health, morality, and wellbeing. Among her publications are the monograph Music and Academia in Victorian Britain (2013) and the edited collection of essays The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920: New Perspectives on Status and Identity (2018).
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