Book of Donmon Teith

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 an

This book was written in the belief that while music is a system of sounds, an assumption that provides the point of departure for most studies of music in cult

Non-Aboriginal; based on papers presented at Ideas, Concepts and Personalities in the History of Ethnomusicology conference, Urbana, Illinois, April 1988.

This important study in ethnomusicology is an attempt by the author -- a musician who has become a social anthropologist -- to compare his experiences of music-

Explaining that musicality is an essential touchstone of the human experience, a concise introduction to the study of the nature of music, its community and its