Tajik Maddâh, Healing, and Flexible Framing with Dr. Benjamin Koen

03/19/22 • 51 min

The music of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan offers opportunities to explore the importance of poetry, rhythmic flexibility, and sacred space within wellness and healing. Dr. Benjamin Koen is a leader in medical ethnomusicology who has written texts and articles exploring Maddâh or Maddoh and the practice of this sung poetry as an expression that promotes psychological flexibility for new perspectives of healing. This episode explores Rumi’s Masnavi and spirituality with musical excerpts.

The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

03/19/22 • 51 min

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Music & Peacebuilding - Tajik Maddâh, Healing, and Flexible Framing with Dr. Benjamin Koen

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Benjamin Koen00:00:00.450

That's one of the things I love is is understanding deeply within a culture or within a one person culture. I like to call it how these things work. You know, what are people's experience, and discern ways that can be

Benjamin Koen00:00:18.149

taught and shared with other people so they can also benefit from it.

Kevin Shorner-Johnson00:00:21.589

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