Music and the Nerves, 1700-1900

Professor George Rousseau, Oxford University, UK Dr. Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester, UK Dr. Ingrid J. Sykes, La Trobe University, Australia Dr. Pilar León-Sanz, University of Navarra, Spain Dr. Aris Sarafianos, University of Ioannina, Greece Professor Julene K Johnson, University of California, USA Professor Amy Graziano, Chapman University, USA Dr. Alix Hui, Mississippi State University, USA Dr. Wiebke Thormählen, Royal College of Music, UK

1. Introduction: The Long History of Neurology and Music; James Kennaway 2. (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) 'Pictures in the Mind': A Personal Account; George Rousseau 3. Music and the Nerves in English Medical Thought, 1586-1777; Penelope Gouk 4. Music and Humanity in the French Enlightenment; Ingrid Sykes 5. Music Therapy in Eighteenth Century Spain: Perspectives and Critiques; Pilar León-Sanz 6. 'The Passionate Power of Music': 'Subsiding Passions' and the Polite Arts of Healing in the British Enlightenment; Aris Sarafianos 7. Music as a Tool in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Neurology; Julene Johnson and Amy Graziano 8. Origin Stories of Listening, Melody, and Survival at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Alexandra Hui 9. Physical Distortion, Emotion and Subjectivity: Musical Virtuosity and Body Anxiety; Wiebke Thormählen