Abstract: The article surveys the main trends in the anthropological study of music from the 1980s to the present. These trends are as follows: (1) music as culture and the mediation of social process, (2) music as discourse and the nature of musical meaning, (3) music and identity, (4) music and modernization, (5) music and technology, (6) music and knowledge, and (7) music as sonic practice.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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