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The Anthropology of Music
Merriam, Alan P. (Professor Of Anthropology, Indiana University, Usa)
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Description for The Anthropology of Music
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 370 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior—one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate the 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 ... Read more
In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior—one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate the 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1964
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810106079
SKU
V9780810106079
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About Merriam, Alan P. (Professor Of Anthropology, Indiana University, Usa)
Alan P. Merriam held the position of Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. He died in 1980.
Reviews for The Anthropology of Music
For the broad perspective it provides of man as music-maker, as also for the lucid résumé of past and present appraoches to this subject which it presents, Merriam's new book should, I think, be treated as essential reading both within the social sciences and the humanities." —Man "With great thoroughness, Merriam has pointed out to anthropologists how much they ... Read more