The Anthropology of MusicNorthwestern University Press, 1 Des 1964 - 376 halaman 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 methods and techniques he suggests are useful to anyone doing field work. Further chapters provide a 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. The Anthropology of Music illuminates much of interest to musicologists but to social scientists in general as well. |
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... activity in the field began with studies conducted primarily in Germany and America, and the two aspects of ethnomusicology appeared almost at once. On the one hand was a group of scholars who devoted much of their attention to the ...
... activity in the field began with studies conducted primarily in Germany and America, and the two aspects of ethnomusicology appeared almost at once. On the one hand was a group of scholars who devoted much of their attention to the ...
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... activities, and content of the two fields. If the areas are to be distinguished and, more important, if the similarities between them are to be assessed, each of these points must be resolved. Harold Gomes Cassidy (1962) argues that the ...
... activities, and content of the two fields. If the areas are to be distinguished and, more important, if the similarities between them are to be assessed, each of these points must be resolved. Harold Gomes Cassidy (1962) argues that the ...
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... activities. . . . The analytic activity involves accumulating data: increasing specific knowledge or particular experience. It is analytic in the sense that it involves making distinctions, dividing, classifying. In both arts and ...
... activities. . . . The analytic activity involves accumulating data: increasing specific knowledge or particular experience. It is analytic in the sense that it involves making distinctions, dividing, classifying. In both arts and ...
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Alan P. Merriam, Valerie Merriam. In the study of the arts the activity processes follow this three-part division. Let us turn now to the question of the content of the social sciences and the humanities, a problem of central concern to ...
Alan P. Merriam, Valerie Merriam. In the study of the arts the activity processes follow this three-part division. Let us turn now to the question of the content of the social sciences and the humanities, a problem of central concern to ...
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... activities" (Parker, 1961:16). There will be occasion to return to this distinction later. In assessing these four approaches to the content of the humanities, it is clear that the separate thinkers hold some things in common. All seem ...
... activities" (Parker, 1961:16). There will be occasion to return to this distinction later. In assessing these four approaches to the content of the humanities, it is clear that the separate thinkers hold some things in common. All seem ...
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