“Those unheard are sweeter”: Musical hallucinations in nineteenth-century medicine and culture

• Autores: James Kennaway
• Localización: Terrain, ISSN 0760-5668, Nº. 68, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: L'emprise des sons)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The historiography of musical hallucinations has hitherto focused on the origins of modern medical investigations of the subject. This has led to a view of the nineteenth century as a break in continuity in which ambivalent mystical conceptions were replaced by scientific perspectives of them as a symptom. This paper looks at the complex attitudes towards the phenomenon in the period, showing how religious, semi-scientific, romantic and medical debates allowed scope for continuing ambiguous and positive views.