How Musical Is Man?

by John Blacking

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295953381
• ISBN13: 9780295953380
• Release Date: September 1974
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher