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The anthropology of music [by] Alan P. Merriam.

By:

Merriam, Alan P, 1923-1980 [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Press, 1964.Description: xi, 358 p. : music ; 24 cmISBN:

0810101785

Subject(s):

Ethnomusicology

DDC classification:

780.89 20 MER

LOC classification:

ML3547 .M47

Contents:

CONTENTS : Preface -- Part 1: Ethnomusicology -- Chapter 1-The Study of Ethnomusicology -- Chapter 2-Toward a Theory for Ethnomusicology -- Chapter 3-Method and Technique. Part 2: Concepts and Behavior -- Chapter 4-Concepts -- Chapter 5-Synesthesia and Intersense Modalities -- Chapter 6-Physical and Verbal Behavior -- Chapter 7-Social Behavior: The Musician -- Chapter 8-Learning -- Chapter 9-The Process of Composition. Part 3: Problems and Results -- Chapter 10-The Study of Song Texts -- Chapter 11-Uses and Functions -- Chapter 12-Music as Symbolic Behavior -- Chapter 13-Aesthetics and the Interrelationship of the Arts -- Chapter 14-Music and Culture History -- Chapter 15-Music and Cultural dynamics -- References Cited -- Index.

Summary: 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.

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Bibliography: p. 321-343.

CONTENTS :
Preface -- Part 1: Ethnomusicology -- Chapter 1-The Study of Ethnomusicology -- Chapter 2-Toward a Theory for Ethnomusicology -- Chapter 3-Method and Technique. Part 2: Concepts and Behavior -- Chapter 4-Concepts -- Chapter 5-Synesthesia and Intersense Modalities -- Chapter 6-Physical and Verbal Behavior -- Chapter 7-Social Behavior: The Musician -- Chapter 8-Learning -- Chapter 9-The Process of Composition. Part 3: Problems and Results -- Chapter 10-The Study of Song Texts -- Chapter 11-Uses and Functions --
Chapter 12-Music as Symbolic Behavior -- Chapter 13-Aesthetics and the Interrelationship of the Arts -- Chapter 14-Music and Culture History -- Chapter 15-Music and Cultural dynamics -- References Cited -- Index.

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.

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