Readings in ethnomusicology.
By: Selected and with an introd. and comments by David P. McAllester.
Series: Landmarks in anthropology
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corp.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Ethnomusicology -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Table of contents: title: Nettl, B. What is ethnomusicology?; title: Reinhard, K. The Berlin Phonogramm Archiv.; title: Seeger, C. Prescriptive and descriptive music writing.; title: Hood, M. Sléndro and pélog redefined.; title: Freeman, L. C., and Merriam, A. P. Statistical classification in anthropology: an application to ethnomusicology.; title: Bayard, S. P. Prolegomena to a study of the principal melodic families of British-American folksong.; title: Collaer, P. Cartography and ethnomusicology.; title: Herzog, G. Plains ghost dance and Great Basin music.; title: Rhodes, W. A study of music diffusion based on the wandering of the opening peyote song.; title: Grame, T.C. Bamboo and music: a new approach to organology.; title: Nettl, B. Historical aspects of ethnomusicology.; title: Waterman, R. A. Music in Australian aboriginal culture; title: some sociological and psychological implications.; title: Burrows, E. G. Music on Ifaluk Atoll in the Caroline Islands.; title: Conklin, G. C., and Maceda, J. Hanunóo music from the Philippines.; title: McAllester, D. P. Indian music in the southwest.; title: Lomax, A. Song structure and social structure.; title: List, G. The boundaries of speech and song.; title: Meyer, L. B. Universalism and relativism in the study of ethnic music.; title: Nadel, S. F. The origins of music.; title: Brown, R. E. India's music.; title: Nketia, J. H. Modern trends in Ghana music.; title: Picken, L. Chinese music.; title: Malm, W. P. Practical approaches to Japanese music.; title: Bibliography (p. 367-370).