How Musical is Man?

Please note the dust jacket has some fading (from the sun) on the front, back and spine. There is also some foxing on the page edges and a name written in the front. Otherwise the book itself is in good condition. The pictures are of the book you will receive.This important study in ethnomusicology is an attempt by the author -- a musician who has become a social anthropologist -- to compare his experiences of music-making in different cultures. He is here presenting new information resulting from his research into African music, especially among the Venda. Venda music, he discovered is in its way no less complex in structure than European music. Literacy and the invention of nation may gene.