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The Anthropology of Music

The Anthropology of Music

by Alan P . Merriam (Author)

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    Paperback 1964

    $33.29
Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 370
 Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 31 Dec 1964
ISBN 10: 0810106078
ISBN 13: 9780810106079

Media Reviews
For the broad perspective it provides of man as music-maker, as also for the lucid resume 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
.. .Merriam's book, seen from the viewpoint of anthropology, is deserving of the highest respect.
--Ethnomusicology
Author Bio
Alan P. Merriam held the position of Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. He died in 1980.