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What is the role of sound in human like?and of music? What do we use it for and ow does it vary across the world? Where does it come from and above all why should we - as we do - care about it? This series of reflections by the celebrated anthropologist Ruth Finnegan tackles these questions and more in her inimitable friendly and accessible style. An Informative and inspiring book, unique.

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What is the role of sound in human like?and of music? What do we use it for and ow does it vary across the world? Where does it come from and above all why should we - as we do - care about it? This series of reflections by the celebrated anthropologist Ruth Finnegan tackles these questions and more in her inimitable friendly and accessible style. An Informative and inspiring book, unique.
Autorenporträt
Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor Open University. Her work has mainly been on oral performance, narrative, the ethnography of music, and communicating (including extra-sensory perception). Her publications include Oral Literature in Africa, The Hidden Musicians, Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication, Why Do We Quote? and, most recently, the novels Black Inked Pearl, Voyage of Pearl of the Seas, and The Helix Pearl. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Old Bletchley, southern England.