This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health

A pioneering work which delves into and reveals the links between music, moral instruction and social reform. This book discusses the role of music in programme

This volume of primary source material examines music and society in Britian during the ninteenth century. Sources explore religion, politics, class, and gender

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration

Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid-nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von H