Through Music to the Self

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Musicologist Peter Hamel explores the effects of music and sound on the human psyche of Indian, Tibetan, Arabian, and of the Far Eastern techniques of vocal and instrumental improvisation, especially in religious contexts. Also included are sections on rock music, psychedelic music and drugs, mantra, the relationship of vowels to parts of the body, meditation, music therapy, breath and voice, singing and 'one's own sound.'