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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Halaman ix
... artist. Most important, all of us are concerned with understanding why man behaves as he docs, and to reach that understanding it seems evident that in the future as in the past we shall have to probe many identical problems. My ...
... artist. Most important, all of us are concerned with understanding why man behaves as he docs, and to reach that understanding it seems evident that in the future as in the past we shall have to probe many identical problems. My ...
Halaman 4
... artistic, and the linguistic. Early ethnomusicologists, recognizing as well the need for broader comparative materials, assumed responsibility for studying the music of all the hitherto unknown areas of the world, and thus an emphasis ...
... artistic, and the linguistic. Early ethnomusicologists, recognizing as well the need for broader comparative materials, assumed responsibility for studying the music of all the hitherto unknown areas of the world, and thus an emphasis ...
Halaman 18
... artist and the scientist lies in what each communicates, and he poses the distinction in the form of a question. More generally, is communication of knowledge a primary function of the artist and the scientist? The answer I should like ...
... artist and the scientist lies in what each communicates, and he poses the distinction in the form of a question. More generally, is communication of knowledge a primary function of the artist and the scientist? The answer I should like ...
Halaman 19
... artist communicates is primarily feelings. Both try to exclude the irrelevant, but neither has any way of knowing ... artist versus the social scientist, for since the artist is not concerned primarily with communicating knowledge, he is ...
... artist communicates is primarily feelings. Both try to exclude the irrelevant, but neither has any way of knowing ... artist versus the social scientist, for since the artist is not concerned primarily with communicating knowledge, he is ...
Halaman 20
... artistic outlook, as opposed to the study of such processes. The ethnomusicologist seeks knowledge and seeks to communicate that knowledge; the results for which he aims arc more scientific than artistic. A further question is whether a ...
... artistic outlook, as opposed to the study of such processes. The ethnomusicologist seeks knowledge and seeks to communicate that knowledge; the results for which he aims arc more scientific than artistic. A further question is whether a ...
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