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Music-Making and the Concept of Henua in an Atoll Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Helen Reeves Lawrence
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In his recent book, Music in Human Life: Anthropological Perspectives on Music (1993), John Kaemmer stated:

The natural environment is not generally considered to be a major factor in musical activity, but it does represent one important set of incentives and constraints. Although obtaining the necessities of life from the natural environment is an inevitable feature of human life, it is often rather peripheral to music. The environment is important to music primarily as it influences the nature of musical instruments … Aside from instruments, the major impact of the environment on music is the way economic arrangements of specific societies affect the livelihood of musicians, their audiences, and their agents … (Kaemmer 1993:179-80).

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 27 , 1995 , pp. 13 - 22
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Copyright © 1995 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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