9780571107902 - How Musical is Man? de Blacking, John (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear and slight fading to spine.

Condición: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0571107907.

Paperback. Condición: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Please note the dust jacket has some fading (from the sun) on the front, back and spine. There is also some foxing on the page edges and a name written in the front. Otherwise the book itself is in good condition. The pictures are of the book you will receive.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.