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Meaning, Power and Exoticism in Medicinal Music: A Case Study of MusiCure in Denmark

This article offers a critical discussion of the use of music in a biomedical setting in Denmark focusing on the specific medicinal music MusiCure based on research carried out by the Musica Humana organization. The article explores how commercial music is applied, experienced and conceptualized in the modern, Western hospital. The position of the music in the market—it is profiled by the authority of medicine—is examined along with the positive experiences of private users. In outlining aspects of the interfaces between healing and biomedical treatment and caretaking, the article discusses how medicinal music with its overt notions of the natural and universal aims at altering the healing space of hospital wards and private homes. The power to define healthy sounds and regulate bodily behaviour in relation to ideas of health is examined in the light of postcolonial critique of social and institutional hegemony.