Bad vibrations : the history of the idea of music as cause of disease / James Kennaway.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2012], ©2012.

xii, 213 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.