Author: Nettl, Bruno.
Title: Music in Primitive Culture.
Description: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956. 1956. - 8vo, black cloth (bumped & lightly rubbed) titled in gilt, in dw (chipped & soiled; piece out of bottom corner of front panel; small stains to rear panel; dw spine faded; price-clipped). xviii, [ii], 182 pp. & [18] pp. (ink name & date on front endpaper). Illustrated with music staves. Very good in fair dw.

First edition.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the music of primitive people to students, scholars, and laymen. It is not intended to interest the specialist in non-Western music, who will find little here that is new to him..I have not covered systematically the music of all primitive cultues..It has been my purpose, rather, to show the kinds of phenomena that occur in primitive music, to give examples, and to indicate how they have been studied and to what general conclusions they have led." [From the author's Preface]

The book includes an annotated bibliography and an 18-page section of musical examples. Good .

Keywords: MUSIC; MUSICOLOGY; ETHNOMUSICOLOGY; PRIMITIVE MUSIC; RHYTHM; POLYPHONY; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; NATIVE AMERICAN; ESKIMO; INUIT; AFRICAN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FIRST EDITION.

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