Definitions and concepts:

culture: “the whole way of life of a people, learned and transmitted from one generation to the next” (2)

music-culture: “a group of people’s total involvement with music” (2)

music: “John Blacking has defined music as ‘humanly organized sound.'” (3)

affect: music’s “power to move” (4)

performance brings music’s affect into being. It is based on rules and procedures.

analysis: the task of “finding out the rules or principles” The rules can be about the music (melody, rhythm, harmony, etc.), ideas about the music, behaviors in relation to the music, and/or links in between them.

musical analysis: “finding patterns in the sound by breaking the music into parts and determining how the parts function in the whole” (7)

community: “the group that carries the traditions and norms of performance” (6)

subculture: a smaller division within a culture. (10)

social organization: “how a group of people divides, arranges, or ranks itself” (9)

style: everything related to the sounds and the organization of material, depending on the music-culture’s aesthetics (11)

genre: “the named, standard units of the repertory” (11)

material culture: “tangible, material ‘things’–physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used–that a culture produces.” (13)

oral tradition: “When a repertory is transmitted chiefly by example and imitation and performed from memory'”