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2. See, for instance: T.W. Adorno, H. Engel, M. Belvianes, K. Blaukopf, H. Boettcher, P. Honigsheim, T. Kneif, I. Supicic, V. Karbusicky, F. Lesure, H. Raynor, P. Rümmenholler, A. Silberman, H. Haselauer.Google Scholar

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4. It is probably significant in this respect that another recent European book, Wolfgang Suppan's, Der musizierende Mensch (Mainz, B. Schott's Söne, 1984) also makes few references to recent ethnomusicological literature.Google Scholar

5. The English-language literature in the sociology of music, today, largely overlaps with popular music scholarship.Google Scholar

6. It is no coincidence that a journal bears the title of International Journal of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.Google Scholar

7. See Merriam, “Aesthetics and the Interrelationship of the Arts,” Chapter XIII in The Anthropology of Music, Northwestern University Press, 1964.Google Scholar