The Anthropology of Music
by Alan P. Merriam
358 pages· 1964· ISBN 9780810106079
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This is a comprehensive approach to music from the point of view of anthropology. The author maintains that ethnomusicology, by definition, must not divorce the sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking, acting, and creating.
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