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| Author | : Alan P. Merriam |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1964-12-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780810106079 |
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.
| Author | : Alan P. Merriam |
| Publisher | : Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
This book was written in the belief that while music is a system of sounds, an assumption that provides the point of departure for most studies of music in culture, it is also a complex of behavior which resonates throughout the whole cultural organism--social organization, esthetic activity, economics, religion. This book is to be distinguished from other studies by its model of music as human action, making this work of interest not only to the ethnomusicologist and anthropologist, but also to those concerned with the nature of music, the nature of man, and the nature of music in human culture. Specifically, this model for the study of ethnomusicology is equally applicable to the study of visual arts, dance, folklore, and literature. --Adapted from dust jacket.
| Author | : Bruno Nettl |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 1991-03-26 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0226574091 |
Non-Aboriginal; based on papers presented at Ideas, Concepts and Personalities in the History of Ethnomusicology conference, Urbana, Illinois, April 1988.
| Author | : Timothy Rice |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0199794375 |
Explaining that musicality is an essential touchstone of the human experience, a concise introduction to the study of the nature of music, its community and its cultural values explains the diverse work of today's ethnomusicologists and how researchers apply anthropological and other social disciplines to studies of human and cultural behaviors. Original.
| Author | : Thomas Crump |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1992-10-15 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780521438070 |
Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science.
| Author | : STEPHEN. COTTRELL |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-09-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781912385317 |
This volume celebrates the significant resurgence of interest in the anthropology of music and dance in recent decades. Traversing a range Traversing a range of fascinating topics, from the reassessment of historical figures such as Katherine Dunham and John Blacking, to the contemporary salience of sonic conflict between Islamic Uyghurand the Han Chinese, the essays within Music, Dance, Anthropology make a strong argument for the continued importance of the work of ethnomusicologists and ethnochoreologists, and of their ongoing recourse to anthropological theories and practices. Case studies are offered from areas as diverse as Central Africa, Ireland, Greece, Uganda and Central Asia, and illuminate core anthropological concepts such as the nature of embodied knowledge, the role of citizenship, ritual practices, and the construction of individual and group identities via a range of ethnographic methodologies. These include the consideration of soundscapes, theuse of ethnographic filmmaking, and a reflection on the importance of close cultural engagement over many years.Taken together these contributions show the study of music and dance practices to be essential to any rounded study of social activity, in whatever context it is found. For as this volume consistently demonstrates, the performance of musicand dance is always about more than just the performance of music and dance.
| Author | : Martin Clayton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1136754326 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : L. Lewis |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2013-08-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137342382 |
Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices.
| Author | : David F. Lancy |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 075911322X |
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Anthropological research on learning in childhood has been scarce, but this book will change that. It demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it shows the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Book jacket.
| Author | : Anya Peterson Royce |
| Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2004-05-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0759115656 |
Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry, and how artists interplay with audience, aesthetics, and style. To support her case, she examines artists as diverse as Fokine and the Ballets Russes, Tewa Indian dancers, 17th century commedia dell'arte, Japanese kabuki and butoh, Zapotec shamans, and the mime of Marcel Marceau, adding her own observations as a professional dancer in the classical ballet tradition. Royce also points to the recent move toward collaboration across artistic genres as evidence of the universality of aesthetics. Her analysis leads to a better understanding of artistic interpretation, artist-audience relationships, and the artistic imagination as cross-cultural phenomena. Over 29 black and white photographs and drawings illustrate the wide range of Royce's cross-cultural approach. Her well-crafted volume will be of great interest to anthropologists, arts researchers, and students of cultural studies and performing arts.
