Beyond the roof of the world: music, prayer, and healing in the pamir mountains

Beyond the Roof of the World is a benchmark in Medical Ethnomusicology and integrative, complementary/alternative medicine. Koen explores ancient practices of music, prayer, and healing among the Pamiri people of Tajikistan. While Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion intodistinct entities, traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects the physical with the spiritual. Now, as people in even the most technologically advanced nations across the globe struggle with obtaining affordable and reliable healthcare coverage, more and more people are turning to these ancient cultural practices of ICAM healing (integrative,complementary, and alternative medicine).With Beyond the Roof of the World, Dr. Benjamin D. Koen unearths the Western separation of healing from spiritual and musical practices as a culturally determined phenomenon, and proves the relevance of medical ethnomusicology in light of the globally spreading ICAM healing practices. Using the culture found within the towering Pamir Mountains of Badakhshan Tajikistan, in a place poetically known as the Roof of the World, as the paradigm of ICAM healing, Koen shows spirituality andmusicality to be intimately intertwined with one's physical life, health and healing. For the first time, Koen bridges the widespread gap between ethnomusicology and music therapy. Koen's extensive research and emersion into the Badakhstan culture provides the reader with an "insider" perspective whilemaintaining an "observer's" view, as he infuses the text with relevant scholarship. INDICE: Language, Pronunciation, and Transliteration 1. Medical Ethnomusicology and the Ontology of Oneness 2. The Five Factors of Music, Prayer, Health, and Healing 3. Music-Prayer Dynamics and Cognitive Flexibility 4. Soundscapeand Musical-Spiritual Entrainment 5. Healthscape, Mystical Poetry, and Multimodal Healing 6. Transformative Meaning In Sound, Empowered Sound In Culture 7.Human Certainty Principle, of Science, Spirituality, and Experience Notes References Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-979821-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 28/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés