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John Blacking. How Musical Is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973. Xii, 118 pp., with 23 photographs, 25 musical examples, and 12 figures. A tape recording of Venda music prepared by the author is available from the publisher.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 5 , 1973 , pp. 193 - 195
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Copyright © 1974 By the International Folk Music Council 

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1. (a) Blacking, John. “The Value of Music in Human Experience,” in Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, I (1969), 33–91; (b) Blacking, John. “Deep and Surface Structures in Venda Music,” in Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, III (1971), 91–108; see also, Blacking, John. “Tonal Organization in the Music of Two Venda Initiation Schools.” Ethnomusicology, XIV, 1 (January, 1970), 1–29; and Blacking, John. Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1967.Google Scholar

2. Leichtentritt, Hugo. Music, History and Ideas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938, rpt. 1947. [1946 given by J. B.].Google Scholar

3. Harman, , Alex, , and Mellers, Wilfred. Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West. 4 vols. London: Rockliff, 1957–1958.Google Scholar

4. Lang, , Henry, Paul. Music in Western Civilization. New York: Norton, 1941.Google Scholar