Music, Culture, and Experience - Selected Papers of John Blacking

Klappentext ForewordBruno NettlAcknowledgmentsThe Ethnomusicology of John Blacking1: Expressing Human Experience through Music2: The Problem of Musical Description3: The Music of Venda Girls' Initiation4: Music and the Historical Process in Vendaland5: The Study of Musical Change6: Reflections on the Effectiveness of Symbols7: The Music of Politics8: Music! Culture! and ExperienceA Note on PronunciationWorks by John BlackingReferencesIndex Zusammenfassung This volume brings together eight of Blacking's most important theoretical papers which reveal his theoretical themes such as the innateness of musical ability and the properties of music as a symbolic or quasi-linguistic system.

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• Authors: John Blacking, Blacking John, Bruno Nettl
• Assisted by: Reginald Byron (Editor), Byron Reginald (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1995
• EAN: 9780226088303
• ISBN: 978-0-226-08830-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Essays, Ethnic Studies, Africa, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, MUSIC / Essays, Folk & traditional music, Literary essays, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies