Music Healing Rituals in Thailand

Autor/innen

  • Bussakorn Binson Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v15i3.839

Schlagworte:

Music healing Thailand, Music ritual, Shaman music, Thai Folk Music, Isaan music

Abstract

This paper discusses the music healing rituals from North, Northeast and Southern Thailand. In general, these healing rituals bring together supportive elements from the family, the community and spiritual entities with the shaman as a conductor. Shaman utilizes music in corporate the community as a whole including elicits the support from the spiritual entitles. Traditional music healing process played the role as enticement to recruit spirits, distract the patients from experiencing unpleasant in their body. Even in today’s modern society these healing rituals have persisted, as they are inseparable from these regions’ animistic beliefs system.

Autor/innen-Biografie

Bussakorn Binson, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Professor, Music Department, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Veröffentlicht

2015-11-09

Zitationsvorschlag

Binson, B. (2015). Music Healing Rituals in Thailand. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v15i3.839