Music Asylums

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 and practitioners in psychiatry and psychology palliative care socio-music studies music psychology and the allied health professions Music Asylums showcases music's role in the existential project of being and staying well mentally and physically.