Music Healing Rituals in Thailand

作者

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

DOI:

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

关键词:

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

摘要

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.

Author Biography

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

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

已出版

2015-11-09

How to Cite

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