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    Anthropology of Music

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    ISBN: 9780810106079
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    AuthorMerriam, Alan P. (Professor of Anthropol
    Pub Date31/12/1964
    BindingPaperback
    Pages370
    Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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    This is a comprehensive approach to music from the point of view of anthropology. The author maintains that ethnomusicology, by definition, must not divorce the sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking, acting, and creating.

    In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that musicis asocial behavior one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly arguesthat ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separatethe sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking, acting, and creating. The study begins with a review of the various approaches in ethnomusicology. He then suggests a useful and simple research model: ideas about music lead to behavior related to music and this behavior results in musical sound. He explains many aspects and outcomes of this model, and the methods and techniques he suggestsare useful to anyone doing field work. Further chaptersprovidea cross-cultural round-up of concepts about music, physical and verbal behavior related to music, the role of the musician, and the learning and composing of music. <i>The Anthropology of Music </i>illuminates much of interest to musicologists but to social scientists in general as well."