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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... kind of study is essentially descriptive; it is, as well, highly technical and thus outside the competence of those not ... kinds of behavior are involved. One of these is physical behavior represented by bodily attitudes and postures as ...
... kind of study is essentially descriptive; it is, as well, highly technical and thus outside the competence of those not ... kinds of behavior are involved. One of these is physical behavior represented by bodily attitudes and postures as ...
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... kinds of problems. Technical studies can tell us much about culture history. The functions and uses of music are as important as those of any other aspect of culture for understanding the workings of society. Music is interrelated with ...
... kinds of problems. Technical studies can tell us much about culture history. The functions and uses of music are as important as those of any other aspect of culture for understanding the workings of society. Music is interrelated with ...
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... kind of activity, the synthetic, occurs when connections are sought among data, among theories, and among theories of theories — when trends, hypotheses, theories, and laws are derived. . . . The third kind of activity ... is reduction ...
... kind of activity, the synthetic, occurs when connections are sought among data, among theories, and among theories of theories — when trends, hypotheses, theories, and laws are derived. . . . The third kind of activity ... is reduction ...
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... kind of study can successfully be substituted for the whole. There is another objection to exclusive or almost-exclusive preoccupation with the descriptive in ethnomusicology, and this concerns the kinds of evaluative judgments which ...
... kind of study can successfully be substituted for the whole. There is another objection to exclusive or almost-exclusive preoccupation with the descriptive in ethnomusicology, and this concerns the kinds of evaluative judgments which ...
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... sound must be regarded as the product of the behavior that produces it. The level out of which this product arises is behavior, and such behavior seems to be of three major kinds. The first 32 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MUSIC.
... sound must be regarded as the product of the behavior that produces it. The level out of which this product arises is behavior, and such behavior seems to be of three major kinds. The first 32 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MUSIC.
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