Readings in ethnomusicology / selected and with an introduction and comments by David P. McAllester.

Author/creator McAllester, David P. compiler.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971.
Descriptionxiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLandmarks in anthropology
Landmarks in anthropology. ^A39250
Contents Introduction -- Comments on the selections -- The field. "What is ethnomusicology?" (from Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology, 1964, pp. 7-26) / Bruno Nettl -- "The Berlin Phonogramm Archiv" (from The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist, V, 2, pp. 1-4) / Kurt Reinhard -- "Prescriptive and descriptive music writing" (from The Musical Quarterly, XLIV, April (1958), pp. 184-195) / Charles Seeger -- "Sléndro and pélog redefined" with a note on laboratory methods by max Harrell (from Selected Reports, I, 1 (1966), pp. 28-48 / Mantle Hood -- "Statistical classification in anthropology: an application to ethnomusicology" (from American Anthropologist, 58 (1956), pp. 464-472 / Linton C. Freeman and Alan P. Merriam -- "Prolegomena to a study of the principal melodic families of British-American folksong" (from Journal of American Folklore, 63, 247 (1950), pp. 1-44) / Samuel P. Bayard -- History. "Cartography and ethnomusicology" (from Ethnomusicology, II, 2 (1957), pp. 66-68) / Paul Collaer -- "Plains ghost dance and Great Basin music" (from American Anthropologist, 37 (1935), pp. 403-419) / George Herzog -- "A study of music diffusion based on the wandering of the opening peyote song" (from Journal of the International Folk Music Council, 10 (1958), pp. 42-49) / Willard Rhodes -- "Bamboo and music: a new approach to organology" (from Ethnomusicology, 6 (1962), pp. 8-14) / Theodore C. Grame -- "Historical aspects of ethnomusicology" (from American Anthropologist, 60, 3 (1958), pp. 518-532) / Bruno Nettl -- Functionalism. "Music in Australian aboriginal culture: some sociological and psychological implications" (from Journal of Music Therapy, V (1955), pp. 40-49) / Richard A. Waterman -- "Music on Ifaluk Atoll in the Caroline Islands" (from Ethnomusicology, volume 2 (1958), pp. 9-22) / Edwin G. Burrows -- "Hanunóo music from the Philippines" (from Ethnic Folkways Library (1955), 20 pp.) / Harold C. Conklin and Jose Maceda -- "Indian music in the southwest" (from Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1962, 15 pp.) / David P. McAllester -- "Song structure and social structure" (from Ethnology, 1 (1962), pp. 425-451) / Alan Lomax -- "The boundaries of speech and song" (from Ethnomusicology, 7 (1963), pp. 1-16) / George List -- "Universalism and relativism in the study of ethnic music" (from Ethnomusicology, 4 (1960), pp. 49-54) / Leonard B. Meyer -- "The origins of music" (from Musical Quarterly, XVI (1930), pp. 531-546) / S. F. Nadel -- Regional studies. "India's music" (from Chapters in Indian Civilization, Vol. II, British and Modern Period, 1967, pp. 367-403) / Robert E. Brown -- "Modern trends in Ghana music" (from African Music, I, 4, (1957), pp. 13-17) / J. H. Nketia -- "Chinese music" (from The New Oxford History, Oxford University Press, pp. 83-96) / Laurence Picken -- "Practical approaches to Japanese music" (from Center for Japanese Studies, Occasional Papers, no. 9, University of Michigan Press, 1965, pp. 95-104) / William P. Malm -- Selected and annotated bibliography.
Bibliography noteIncludes annotated bibliography (pages 367-370).
LCCN 78184042

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