The Anthropology of Music by Valerie Merriam, Alan P. Merriam

The Anthropology of Music

Valerie Merriam, Alan P. Merriam

376 pages 1964

1 edition

nonfiction music informative slow-paced
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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 sep...

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