Music as culture /edited by Kay Kaufman Shelemay.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Garland, (c)1990.Description: 325 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
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Contents:
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, and others -- 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 aculturacion en Sudamerica 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.
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Reprint of essays originally published in various sources 1938-1984.

Includes bibliographical references.

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, and others -- 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 aculturacion en Sudamerica 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.

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