The Anthropology of Music
Book Details
Author(s)
Alan P. Merriam
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0810106078
ISBN-13
9780810106079
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#389,511
Category
Music
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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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.
