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Music is Medicine
What if music wasn’t just something you listened to — but something that shaped your biology?
Music is Medicine explores the deep connection between rhythm, movement, and the nervous system. Drawing from neuroscience, somatics, and global musical traditions, this book reveals how tempo, percussion, and physical movement impact everything from stress regulation to emotional processing and connection.
Across every continent, music has always been more than sound, it’s been a language, a ritual, and a tool for transformation. From indigenous ceremonies to underground raves, rhythm has connected bodies, cultures, and communities in ways science is only just beginning to understand.
Emma weaves together years of research, embodied practice, and global exploration to unpack the relationship between rhythm, movement, and the body. Blending insights from neurobiology, electronic music, anthropology, and somatic intelligence, she shows how rhythm and dance have long influenced human physiology; from the drumbeat of tradition to the drop of a bassline.
For music lovers, DJs, musicians, dancers, educators, facilitators, and anyone curious about the science of rhythm and the intelligence of the body, this is a fresh, accessible look at music beyond performance or entertainment.
A reminder of what rhythm is really for.
Music is Medicine explores the deep connection between rhythm, movement, and the nervous system. Drawing from neuroscience, somatics, and global musical traditions, this book reveals how tempo, percussion, and physical movement impact everything from stress regulation to emotional processing and connection.
Across every continent, music has always been more than sound, it’s been a language, a ritual, and a tool for transformation. From indigenous ceremonies to underground raves, rhythm has connected bodies, cultures, and communities in ways science is only just beginning to understand.
Emma weaves together years of research, embodied practice, and global exploration to unpack the relationship between rhythm, movement, and the body. Blending insights from neurobiology, electronic music, anthropology, and somatic intelligence, she shows how rhythm and dance have long influenced human physiology; from the drumbeat of tradition to the drop of a bassline.
For music lovers, DJs, musicians, dancers, educators, facilitators, and anyone curious about the science of rhythm and the intelligence of the body, this is a fresh, accessible look at music beyond performance or entertainment.
A reminder of what rhythm is really for.
209 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 7, 2025
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About the author
Emma Marshall
450 books5 followersEmma Marshall, born Emma Martin in Cromer, Norfolk, in 1830, was a prolific British children's author, one who published more than two hundred novels in the course of her career. She married banker Hugh Graham Marshall in 1854, going to live with him in Clifton, in Bristol, Somerset. The Marshalls had nine daughters, the youngest of whom, - Christabel Gertrude Marshall, aka Christopher Marie St. John - was an author, a playwright, and a noted campaigner for women's suffrage. Marshall began writing in 1861, choosing, for each of her stories, a famous structure or person from history, and weaving a fictional tale around it. Her best-selling books were Under Salisbury Spire, Penshurst Castle and Winchester Meads. She died in 1899.
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