Artist Of The Week: J Henry
The Beatles’ Revolver furthered the album-as-art perspective and continued pop music’s evolution. Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore on the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 where she was recording Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology. In this image, Mountain Chief is listening to a recording.In the West, much of the historical past of music that’s taught deals with the Western civilization’s art music, generally identified as classical music. The historical past of music in non-Western cultures (“world music” or the field of “ethnomusicology”) can also be taught in Western universities.
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