Research Catalog

Title

Music as culture / edited by Kay Kaufman Shelemay.

Publication

New York : Garland, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman

Description

325 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

The Garland library of readings in ethnomusicology ; v. 3

Uniform Title

The Garland library of readings in ethnomusicology ; v. 3.

Subject

Ethnomusicology

Note

• Reprint of essays originally published in various sources 1938-1984.
• Chiefly in English; one article in Spanish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Music in the thinking of the American Indian / George Herzog -- Folk music as a source of social history / Charles Seeger -- African influence on the music of the Americas / Richard Alan Waterman -- The changing functions of a folksong / Linton C. Freeman -- The concept of culture clusters applied to the Belgian Congo / Alan P. Merriam, et al. -- Folk song style / Alan Lomax -- Criteria for acculturation / Klaus Wachsmann -- Music as an agent of political expression / Willard Rhodes -- The music process as a function in a context of functions / Charles Seeger -- Tradiciones musicales y aculturación en Sudamérica / Carlos Vega -- Musical areas reconsidered : a critique of North American Indian research / Bruno Nettl -- The semantic parameter in music : the blanket rite of the Lower Kutenai / Norma McLeod -- Symbols, song, dance, and features of articulation : Is religion an extreme form of traditional authority? / Maurice Bloch -- Time and tune in Java / Judith Becker -- The first snake song / David P. McAllester -- The processes and results of musical culture contact : a discussion of terminology and concepts / Margaret J. Kartomi -- Sound structure as social structure / Steven Feld.

ISBN

0824064712 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^90003540^

OCLC

• 21563579
• SCSB-10154709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library