Ethnomusicology : a very short introduction / Timothy Rice.

"Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to p...

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Uniform Title:Very short introductions.
Main Author: Rice, Timothy, 1945- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:Very short introductions.
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Physical Description:xvi, 151 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Format: Book

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