MUS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noise Rock, Whale Vocalization, List Of Newspapers In Greece
13 Oct 2018
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Music: humanly organized sound - john blacking"s definition of music from his book how. Musical: the capacity of humans to, create, perform, organize cognitively, react physically and emotionally to, and interpret the meanings of music. Q: how musical is man: a: very, music exists in every culture, music is part of the human experience, like speaking; we need music to be fully human . Ethnos: from the ancient greek: nation, tribe, ethnology: the comparative study of human linguistic and cultural diversity based on direct contact with particular groups of people (rice 2014, 3) In modern, fragmented societies, subcultures based on work, class, recreational experiences hobbies, etc. are often more meaningful groups to study: some question if ethno is an outdated prefix for our discipline. Process: product, scores, sound recordings, process, events, motivations, behaviours, significance, christopher small (1927-2011) used the term musicking to suggest that music is more verb than noun.
