Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith - Hardcover

Lane, Deforia; Wilkins, Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0310432103 ISBN 13: 9780310432104

Publisher: Zondervan, 1995

Synopsis

Wonderful biography from Deforia Lane a music therapist!! Her life of music, healing and faith!

About this title

From Booklist:

Music therapist Lane's book is both autobiography and splendid religious testimony. For as much as she has been devoted to music, she has been a devout Christian whose faith is of the higher kind Christopher Lasch spoke of in The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy that trusts in the goodness of being despite the inevitability of suffering. That faith animated and sustained her through the early disappointment of not quite making the grade as a professional concert soprano, the potential mishap of becoming pregnant before marrying, the miscarriage of her second pregnancy, training for a new career and subsequently balancing job and family duties, and then having to deal with breast cancer. From those challenges, she rose to prominence in her field (she brings seemingly instinctive gifts to her chosen work, as her many anecdotes of ministering to the sick and disabled attest--but she never says so) and became a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. With Wilkins' help, Lane makes her inspiring life story theologically compelling, too. Ray Olson

From Publishers Weekly:

If the mark of a true artist is that he or she can see beyond the tangible into the world of the intangible, then Deforia Lane is an artist. Partly as one introspectively engaged in autobiography and partly in her professional role as a resident director of music therapy at University Hospitals of Cleveland's Ireland Cancer Center, at Rainbow Babies and at Children's Hospital, Lane relives the ways in which she has seen music work spiritual and sometimes physical healing upon the ill (including herself) and their families. While Lane certainly seems gifted musically, her larger and more rare gift may be the ability to see grace in everyday occurrences and to name it. This book will appeal to those interested in both music therapy and in the spiritual aspects of music as well.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0310432103
• ISBN 13: 9780310432104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 216