Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease
Contents: Introduction: musical orders and disorders From sensibility to pathology: nervous music, 1700-1850 Modern music and nervous modernity: Wagnerism as a disease of civilization, 1850-1914 Pathological music, politics and race: Germany and the United States, 1900-45 Music as mind control, music as weapon: pathological music since 1945 Bibliography Index.