
Musics of Many Cultures
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
The foremost authorities in the field of music from around the world have contributed twenty original essays for this volume, edited by Elizabeth May. Only European musics have been omitted, except insofar as they affect other musics discussed here. North
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Content
Mantle Hood
Editor's Preface
Elizabeth May
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Contributors
1. Ethnomusicology: Definitions, Directions, and
Problems
Bruno Nettl
2. Evolution and Revolution in Chinese Music
Kuo-huang Han and Lindy Li Mark
3. Certain Experiences in Korean Music
Kang-sook Lee
4. Some of Japan's Musics and Musical Principles
William P. Malm
5. The Music of Thailand
David Morton
6. Some Principles of Indian Classical Music
Bonnie C. Wade
7. Musical Strata in Sumatra, Java, and Bali
Margaret J. Kartomi
8. Polynesian Music and Dance
Adrienne L. Kaeppler
9. The Traditional Music of the Australian Aborigines
Trevor A. Jones
10. Music South of the Sahara
Atta Annan Mensah
11. Trends in the Black Music of South Africa,
1959-1969
John Blacking
12. Anlo Ewe Music in Anyako, Volta Region, Ghana
Alfred Kwashie Ladzekpo and Kobla Ladzekpo
Line drawings by Leon ice Shinneman
13. The Music of Ethiopia
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin
Line drawings by Jerome Kimberlin
14. Secular Classical Music in the Arabic Near East
Jozef M. Pacholczyk
Line drawings by Richard Keeling
15. Classical Iranian Music
Ella Zonis
16. On Jewish Music
Abraham A. Schwadron
17. North American Native Music
David P. McAllester
18. Music of the Alaskan Eskimos
Lorraine D. Koranda
19. Symbol and Function in South American Indian
Music
Dale A. Olsen
20. Folk Music of South America-A Musical Mosaic
Dale A. Olsen
Index
Additional Bibliography, Discography, and
Filmography
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