Chapter 1 - Before the Trip Begins

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This chapter introduces key philosophical concepts associated with the study of music, as well as the field of ethnomusicology.

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Book:
Kubik, Gerhard. Theory of African Music, Vols. 1 & 2. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo8648201.html
Book:
Kubik, Gerhard. Africa and the Blues. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/11
Book:
Merriam, Alan. The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
Book:
Blacking, John. How Musical Is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973.
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BLAHOC.html
Book:
Nettl, Bruno. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Website:
The Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/
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Ethnomusicology Institute, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/ethno.shtml
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School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London
http://www.soas.ac.uk
Website:
International Council for Traditional Music
http://www.ictmusic.org/
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Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix, Arizona USA)
http://www.themim.org/
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National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota (Vermillion, South Dakota USA)
http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/index.html
Website:
Grove Music Online
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_gmo
Website:
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
http://glnd.alexanderstreet.com/
Video:
JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of World Music
http://lyrichord.com/jvcvideoanthologyofworldmusicanddance.aspx
Journal:
Journal of the Society for Asian Music
http://asianmusic.skidmore.edu/