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Musical Efficacy: Musicking to Survive—the Case of the Pygmies

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Gilbert Rouget  and
Margaret Buckner
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It is certainly nothing new to point out that Pygmies, hunter-gatherers of the African equatorial rainforest, are known as a people who sing and dance—in other words, who “music“†—a lot. Their music, for the most part vocal polyphony, has been abundantly recorded and reproduced on 78-rpm records and on CDs. Many

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 43 , 2011 , pp. 89 - 121
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Copyright © 2011 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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