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By John Blacking

ISBN-10: 0295953381

ISBN-13: 9780295953380

This significant examine in ethnomusicology is an try out via the writer -- a musician who has develop into a social anthropologist -- to check his reviews of music-making in numerous cultures. he's the following proposing new details because of his learn into African song, specifically one of the Venda. Venda tune, he found is in its method no much less complicated in constitution than eu song. Literacy and the discovery of country may perhaps generate prolonged musical buildings, yet they convey alterations of measure, and never the adaptation in type that's implied through the excellence among ‘art’ and ‘folk’ track. Many, if now not all, of music’s crucial methods can be present in the structure of the human physique and in styles of interplay of human our bodies in society. hence all tune is structurally, in addition to functionally, ‘folk’ track within the feel that tune can't be transmitted of have that means with out institutions among people.

If John Blacking’s bet in regards to the organic and social origins of track is true, or maybe purely partially right, it should generate new rules concerning the nature of musicality, the function of song in schooling and its normal function in societies which (like the Venda within the context in their conventional economic climate) could have extra rest time as automation raises.

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I reinforced this g e n e r a l s t a t e m e n t by referring to the c o n c e p t s of music shared b y the V e n d a o f t h e N o r t h e r n T r a n s v a a l . T h e V e n d a also share the experience of music making, and without this experience there would be very little music. T h e production o f t h e patterns o f sound w h i c h the V e n d a call music depends, first, on the c o n t i n u i t y of the social groups w h o perform i t and, second, o n t h e w a y the m e m b e r s o f those groups relate to each other.

MUSICAL Vho l i - m a IS MAN? da-vha la kho - mbe. problem of describing w h a t happens in a piece of music. We cannot yet explain what we already k n o w intuitively as a result of experience in culture, namely, the essential differences between the music of H a y d n and M o z a r t , or of the Flathead and the Sioux Indians. It is not enough to k n o w the distinctive features of Mozart's piano concertos or of Beethoven's orchestration: we w a n t to know exactly h o w and w h y Beethoven is Beethoven, Mozart is Mozart, and H a y d n is H a y d n .

Apart from hearing, are essential for m u s i c m a k i n g , o r w h e t h e r a n y o f t h e m are specific to m u s i c . It seems t h a t m u s i c a l activities are associated with specific parts of t h e b r a i n , and that these are n o t the s a m e as the language centers. B u t we shall never k n o w w h a t to l o o k for until we study the creative processes t h a t are present e v e n in a learned p e r f o r m a n c e of music, m u c h as they are p r e s e n t in the sentences of a learned language.

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