How Musical Is Man?

John Blacking (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

147 Seiten

1974
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-95338-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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-making in different cultures. He is here presenting new information resulting from his research into African music, especially among the Venda. Venda music, he discovered is in its way no less complex in structure than European music. Literacy and the invention of nation may generate extended musical structures, but they express differences of degree, and not the difference in kind that is implied by the distinction between 'art' and 'folk' music. Many, if not all, of music's essential processes may be found in the constitution of the human body and in patterns of interaction of human bodies in society. Thus all music is structurally, as well as functionally, 'folk' music in the sense that music cannot be transmitted of have meaning without associations between people.

If John Blacking's guess about the biological and social origins of music is correct, or even only partly correct, it would generate new ideas about the nature of musicality, the role of music in education and its general role in societies which (like the Venda in the context of their traditional economy) will have more leisure time as automation increases.

Humanly Organized Sound

Music in Society and Culture

Culture and Society in Music

Soundly Organized Humanity

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.1974
Reihe/Serie	How Musical Is Man?
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-295-95338-1 / 0295953381
ISBN-13	978-0-295-95338-0 / 9780295953380
Zustand	Neuware