How Musical We Are: John Blacking on Music, Education, and Cultural Understanding

Journal of Research in Music Education

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 336-359

  Campbell, Patricia Shehan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 84992777437     PISSN: 00224294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3345368     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. John Blacking, “Transcultural Communication and the Biological Foundations of Music,” La Musica Come Linguaggio Universale (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1990), 188.
2. Bruno Nettl, forward to Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking, ed. Reginald Byron (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), vii.
3. Michael Mark and Charles L. Gary, A History of American Music Education (New York: Schirmer Books, 1992).
4. Reginald Byron's essay on “The Ethnomusicology of John Blacking” (in Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking, ed. Byron, A History of American Music Education).
5. Keith Howard, “John Blacking: An Interview,” Ethnomusicology (Winter 1991), 55–76.
6. Blacking as “Musical Instruments of the Malayan Aborigines,” Federation Museums Journal (Autumn/Winter 1954–55), 35–52.
7. Howard, 58.
8. Essays in Shadows in the Field, ed. Gregory Barz and Timothy Cooley (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), particularly those by Tim Rice (“Toward a Mediation of Field Methods and Field Experience in Ethnomusicology,” 101–120).
9. Jeff Todd Titon (“Knowing Fieldwork,” 87–100).
10. Rita Klinger, “Matters of Compromise: An Ethnographic Study of Culture-Bearers in Elementary Music Education” (Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1996).
11. John Blacking, Venda Children's Songs: An Ethnomusicological Analysis (University of Chicago Press, 1995).
12. John Blacking to Alan Merriam, 22 May 1961, Special Collections: The Blacking Papers, University of Western Australia, Perth.
13. John Blacking's Journal, 7 October 1957, Special Collections: The Blacking Papers, University of Western Australia, Perth.
14. Blacking's “Fictitious Kinship amongst Girls of the Venda of the Northern Transvaal,” Man 59, (1959): 155–58.
15. “The Social Value of Venda Riddles,” African Studies 20, (1961): 1–21.
16. “Some Social Effects of Migrant Labour on Rural Africans,” Black Sash (1974): 35–49.
17. Black Background: The Childhood of a South African Girl (London and New York: Abelard Schuman, 1964).
18. Blacking, “Comment on A. P. Merriam, ‘The Anthropology of Music,’” Current Anthropology (1966): 218.
19. African Studies (1969).
20. John Blacking, How Musical is Man? (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973).
21. How Musical is Man? (London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1976).
22. Le Sens Musical (Paris: Les editions de minuit, 1980).
23. Como e Musicale L'uomo? (Milano: Edizioni Uncopli, 1986).
24. I Ekfrasi tis Anthropinis (Athens: Nefeli, 1986).
25. The Anthropology of the Body (ASA Monographs 15), ed. John Blacking (London: Academic Press, 1977).
26. The Performing Arts: Music and Dance, ed. John Blacking and Joann Keali'inohomoku (The Hague: Mouton, 1979).
27. John Blacking, A Commonsense View of All Music: Reflections on Percy Grainger's Contribution to Ethnomusicology and Music Education (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
28. Nettl, vii.
29. Blacking's unpublished proposal for Cambridge University Press, ca. 1989, Special Collections: The Blacking Papers, University of Western Australia, Perth.
30. Keith Howard, interview by author, notes, Serpa, Portugal, 5 December 1999.
31. Blacking to students, 1978–1989, Special Collections: the Blacking Papers, University of Western Australia, Perth.
32. John Blacking, “Ethnomusicology and Music Education” (paper presented at a regional meeting of music teachers, Manchester, UK, ca. 1984).
33. Howard, 72.
34. Blacking, Venda Children's Songs: An Ethnomusicological Analysis, 6.
35. Venda Children's Songs: An Ethnomusicological Analysis, 26.
36. Blacking, John, “Versus gradus novos ad Parnassum musicum: Exemplum Africanum,” Becoming Human through Music: The Wesleyan Symposium on the Perspectives of Social Anthropology in the Teaching and Learning of Music, ed. David McAllester (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1985): 43–52.
37. Blacking, How Musical is Man?, 8.
38. Blacking, Venda Children's Songs: An Ethnomusicological Analysis, 1967/1995, 29.
39. John Blacking, “The Biology of Music-Making,” Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, ed. Helen Myers (New York: Norton, 1992), 301–334.
40. Blacking, Venda Children's Songs: An Ethnomusicological Analysis, 29.
41. Venda Children's Songs: An Ethnomusicological Analysis, 29.
42. Patricia Shehan Campbell, Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
43. Kyra Gaunt, “The Games Black Girls Play: Music, Body, and ‘Soul’” (Ph.D. diss, University of Michigan, 1997).
44. Kathryn M. Marsh, “Variation and Transmission Processes in Children's Singing Games in an Australian Playground” (Ph.D. diss, University of Sydney, 1998).
45. Cecilia Riddell, “Traditional Singing Games of Elementary School Children in Los Angeles” (Ph.D. diss, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990).
46. Blacking, “Versus gradus novos ad Parnassum musicum: Exemplum Africanum,” 45–46.
47. Reginald Byron (1995, 19–20) is substantiated in a study of Blacking's taped interviews, journal entries, and collected correspondence in Special Collections: The Blacking Papers, University of Western Australia, Perth.
48. Blacking, Venda Children's Songs: An Ethnomusicological Analysis, 155–165.
49. Blacking, A Common-Sense View of All Music, 46.
50. John Bailey, John Blacking: Dialogue with the Ancestors (The John Blacking Memorial Lecture, European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, Geneva, Switzerland, 1991).
51. John Blacking, “Patterns of Nsenga Kalimba Music,” African Music (Spring 1959): 26–43.
52. Blacking, How Musical Is Man?, x.
53. Blacking, A Common-Sense View of All Music, 126.
54. Blacking, A Common-Sense View of All Music, 129.
55. Blacking, 1985, “Ethnomusicology and Music Education” (paper presented at a regional meeting of music teachers, Manchester, UK, ca. 1984), 1.
56. Blacking, How Musical is Man?, 116.
57. James Banks (“Multicultural Education: Historical Development, Dimensions, and Practice,” Handbook of Research in Multicultural Education. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1995), 3–19.
58. Christine Sleeter and Carl Grant in Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender (Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1988).
59. Blacking preferred an emphasis on music for music's sake, rather than a “socialist music education policy” that would emphasize musical education for the sake of “fostering particular national or cultural identities,” as argued in “Ethnomusicology and Music Education,” ca. 1984, p. 1.
60. John Blacking, “A False Trail for the Arts? Multicultural Music Education and the Denial of Individual Creativity,” The Aesthetic in Education, ed. Malcolm Ross (Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press 1985), 27.
61. Blacking, A Common-Sense View of All Music, 149.
62. Blacking, How Musical Is Man?, 4.