Music, Meaning and Culture

This paper situates musical meaning in culture, addressing music as social symbol and as ongoing process of meaning creation. Three examples of non- Western musical practice are used to illustrate the embedding of musical meaning in cultural context. The performance of an Australian Aboriginal song...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Widdess
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2012-09-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/52985