Embodying the Music and Death Nexus: Consolations, Salvations and Transformations

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This edited collection offers a range of critical, analytic and personal reflections on how music provides a container and a medium for experiencing, processing and integrating embodied encounters with death. It showcases interdisciplinary case studies written by authors from across Australia, France, The Netherlands, Poland and the UK.

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  Embodying the Music and Death Nexus: Consolations, Salvations and Transformations

  • 2022-08-17
  • 217 pages
  • Ebook
  • Emerald Group Publishing

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