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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... exist; we understand the sound much better than we understand the total organization of its production. This book, then, is an attempt to fill the gap which exists in ethno- musicology; to provide a theoretical framework for the study ...
... exist; we understand the sound much better than we understand the total organization of its production. This book, then, is an attempt to fill the gap which exists in ethno- musicology; to provide a theoretical framework for the study ...
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... exists as it does, we must also understand how and why the behavior which produces it is as it is, and how and why the concepts which underlie that behavior are ordered in such a way as to produce the particularly desired form of ...
... exists as it does, we must also understand how and why the behavior which produces it is as it is, and how and why the concepts which underlie that behavior are ordered in such a way as to produce the particularly desired form of ...
Halaman 10
... exists between music as communication and music as a "universal language." But the question remains as to what we mean by "communication." On a simple level, it can perhaps be said that music communicates within a given music community ...
... exists between music as communication and music as a "universal language." But the question remains as to what we mean by "communication." On a simple level, it can perhaps be said that music communicates within a given music community ...
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... exist on a level outside the control and behavior of people, and several kinds of behavior are involved. One of these is physical behavior represented by bodily attitudes and postures as well as the use of specific muscles in placing ...
... exist on a level outside the control and behavior of people, and several kinds of behavior are involved. One of these is physical behavior represented by bodily attitudes and postures as well as the use of specific muscles in placing ...
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... exist. The conclusion is almost inescapable that what the cthnomusicologist desires is not the subjective ... exists between the activities of the arts and the sciences, and again Cassidy argues that any such distinctions are minimal ...
... exist. The conclusion is almost inescapable that what the cthnomusicologist desires is not the subjective ... exists between the activities of the arts and the sciences, and again Cassidy argues that any such distinctions are minimal ...
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