"A sound track of your life": Music in contemporary UK funerals

Omega (United States)

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-54

  Adamson, Sue ^a   Holloway, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MUSIC; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RELIGION; SYMBOLISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; FUNERAL RITES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MUSIC; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84861714146     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.65.1.c     Document Type: Article

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