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Routledge
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All people, in no matter what culture, must be able to place their music firmly in the context of the totality of their beliefs, experiences, and activities, for without such ties, music cannot exist. This means that there must be a body of theory connected with any music system - not necessarily a theory of the structure of music sound, although that may be present as well, but rather a theory of... Read more
1: The Ethnography of Flathead Music; 1: The Sources of Music; 2: Ideas of Music and Musicianship; 3: Sound Instruments; 4: The Uses of Music; 5: Acculturation and Culture Change; 6: Some Problems of Interpretation; 2: Songs and Analysis; 7: The Sample; 8: Analysis; 9: Some Conclusions and Further Problems
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Alan Merriam
