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 vii
... kinds of materials it handles or how it is to handle them. One point, however, has clearly re-emerged, and this is that ethnomusicology is approachable from two directions, the anthropological and the musi- cological. Given these two ...
... kinds of materials it handles or how it is to handle them. One point, however, has clearly re-emerged, and this is that ethnomusicology is approachable from two directions, the anthropological and the musi- cological. Given these two ...
Halaman viii
... kinds of theory and data may arise from it. At the same time, the non-ethnomusi- cologist anthropologist is often bewildered by the proportion of the literature which deals with technical matters beyond his ken and which is thus far too ...
... kinds of theory and data may arise from it. At the same time, the non-ethnomusi- cologist anthropologist is often bewildered by the proportion of the literature which deals with technical matters beyond his ken and which is thus far too ...
Halaman 5
... kinds of studies to be made. Marius Schneider says that the "primary aim [of ethnomusicology is] the comparative ... kind of definition is that it tends to treat ethnomusicology not as a process of study, but rather as a discipline which ...
... kinds of studies to be made. Marius Schneider says that the "primary aim [of ethnomusicology is] the comparative ... kind of definition is that it tends to treat ethnomusicology not as a process of study, but rather as a discipline which ...
Halaman 7
... kinds of analysis. The first is the collation of ethnographic and ethnologic materials into a coherent body of knowledge about music practice, behavior, and concepts in the society being studied, as these are relevant to the hypotheses ...
... kinds of analysis. The first is the collation of ethnographic and ethnologic materials into a coherent body of knowledge about music practice, behavior, and concepts in the society being studied, as these are relevant to the hypotheses ...
Halaman 8
... kinds of data— the anthropological and the musicological — that ethnomusicology is unique. Since a discipline can be defined, and since it can also be described in terms of what its practitioners do, then at least by implication it is ...
... kinds of data— the anthropological and the musicological — that ethnomusicology is unique. Since a discipline can be defined, and since it can also be described in terms of what its practitioners do, then at least by implication it is ...
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