Alan P. Merriam
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 44 years ago |
| Date of birth | November 1,1923 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Missoula |
| Montana | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | February 3,1980 |
| Died | Warsaw |
| Poland | |
| Education | Northwestern University |
| Known for | Africa |
| Field | Ethnomusicology |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada |
| Books | The Anthropology of Music |
| Academic advisor | Melville J. Herskovits |
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| ID | 796559 |
Alan P. Merriam Life story
Alan Parkhurst Merriam was an American ethnomusicologist known for his studies of music in Native America and Africa. In his book The Anthropology of Music, he outlined and develops a theory and method for studying music from an anthropological perspective with anthropological methods.
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