"Anthropology of Music" - Ongaku no jinruigaku

Japanese: 《音楽の人類学》 - おんがくのじんるいがく
"Anthropology of Music" - Ongaku no jinruigaku

…During that time, he conducted fieldwork in the Congo, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and among the Flathead Indians. His major work, “Anthropology of Music” (1964), presented a new methodology for ethnomusicology and had a revolutionary impact on the academic world. His argument was that music should not be treated as a sound estranged from humans, but should be positioned as part of human behavior embedded in a social and cultural context. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Anthropology of Music" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その間,コンゴ,ザイール(現,コンゴ民主共和国),フラットヘッド・インディアン等のフィールドワークを行った。主要著書《音楽の人類学》(1964)により,民族音楽学の新しい方法論を提示し,革命的な影響力を学界に及ぼした。その主張は,音楽を人間から離反した音として扱うのではなく,社会・文化的脈絡の中に組み込まれた人間行動の一環として位置づけるべきであるとするところにある。…

※「《音楽の人類学》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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