{"product_id":"healing-songs-9780822337027","title":"Healing Songs","description":"While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions. In the West, for almost two millennia, the roles of the healer and the musician have been strictly separated. \u003cp\u003eUntil recently, that is. Over the past few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in healing music. In the midst of this nascent revival, Ted Gioia, a musician, composer, and widely praised author, offers the first detailed exploration of the uses of music for curative purposes from ancient times to the present. Gioia's inquiry into the restorative powers of sound moves effortlessly from the history of shamanism to the role of Orpheus as a mythical figure linking Eastern and Western ideas about therapeutic music, and from Native American healing ceremonies to what clinical studies can reveal about the efficacy of contemporary methods of sonic healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGioia considers a broad range of therapies, providing a thoughtful, impartial guide to their histories and claims, their successes and failures. He examines a host of New Age practices, including toning, Cymatics, drumming circles, and the Tomatis method. And he explores how the medical establishment has begun to recognize and incorporate the therapeutic power of song. Acknowledging that the drumming circle will not--and should not--replace the emergency room, nor the shaman the cardiologist, Gioia suggests that the most promising path is one in which both the latest medical science and music--with its capacity to transform attitudes and bring people together--are brought to bear on the multifaceted healing process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHealing Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, as in its companion volume \u003ci\u003eWork Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, Gioia moves beyond studies of music centered on specific performers, time periods, or genres to illuminate how music enters into and transforms the experiences of everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Gioia, pianist, composer, and one of the founders of Stanford University's Jazz Studies program, is the author of \u003ci\u003eWork Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, as well as several celebrated books, including \u003ci\u003eWest Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eThe History of Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as one of the best books of the year by Jonathan Yardley in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, chosen as a notable book of the year by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and honored with the Bay Area Book Reviewers' award for best nonfiction work of the year. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Imperfect Art \u003c\/i\u003ewon the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and was named a Jazz Book of the Century by the \u003ci\u003eJazz Educators Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He has recorded several compact discs as a leader, including \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Open Road\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTango Cool\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726496338194,"sku":"9780822337027","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20ad5d6a-f829-4fc1-ba60-010c59340e87.jpg?v=1734872112","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/healing-songs-9780822337027","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}