George Duke

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George Herzog (born December 11, 1901 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † November 4, 1983 in Indianapolis ) was an American musicologist and ethnomusicologist .

Life

Georg Herzog studied from 1917 to 1919 at the Budapest Music Academy and from 1919 to 1920 at the University of Music in Charlottenburg . From 1921 he assisted in the Berlin phonogram archive of the psychologist Carl Stumpf and his assistant Erich Moritz von Hornbostel . In 1925 he emigrated to the USA, where he took up postgraduate studies in anthropology at Columbia University , his university teachers were Franz Boas , Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict . In 1930/31 he went on a research trip to Liberia , where he recorded the language and folk music of the Jabo on behalf of Sapir . In 1935 (and 1947) he received a Guggenheim Fellowship . Through field research he became one of the most authoritative experts on Indian music in North America and received his doctorate in 1937 with the work A comparison of Pueblo and Pima musical styles . He has been engaged in research and teaching at the universities of Chicago , Yale and Columbia. During the Second World War he worked for the enemy reconnaissance of the US Army.

Herzog was professor of anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington from 1948 to 1958 , where he set up the music ethnology archive, which he had initially built up at Columbia University from 1936 on. Herzog was the pioneer for methods of ethnomusicology in North America and asked radical research questions : "do animals have music?" (1941). Bruno Nettl was one of his students .

Herzog was a member of the Board of Advisers of the Institute of Jazz Studies and was briefly President of the Society for Ethnomusicology founded by David P. McAllester , Alan Merriam , Willard Rhodes and Charles Seeger in 1955 . After falling seriously ill in 1950, he had to give up work in 1958, retired in 1962 and lived in a sanatorium for the next twenty years.

Fonts (selection)

  • Folk tunes from Mississippi . repr. New York: Da Capo Press, 1977
  • with Harold Courlander : The cow-tail switch, and other West African stories . New York: H. Holt and Co. 1947
  • Drum Signaling in a West African Tribe . in: Word 1, pp. 217-238, 1945
  • with Frank G. Speck : The Tutelo spirit adoption ceremony: reclothing the living in the name of the dead . Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1942
  • with Charles G. Blooah: Jabo Proverbs from Liberia: Maxims in the Life of a Native Tribe . London, Oxford University Press 1936
  • Research in primitive and folk music in the United States, a survey . Washington, DC, American council of learned societies 1936
  • The music of the Caroline Islands: (from the phonogram archive, Berlin) . Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1936. (= Results of the South Sea Expedition 1908–1910 , II B, Vol. 9, 2nd half volume, Eilers, Westkarolinen.)
  • A comparison of Pueblo and Pima musical styles . New York City 1935

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jabo language, see English Wikipedia en: Jabo language
  2. ↑ Bulletin of the American Musicological Society, Aug. 1941, pp. 3f. Note from Rachel Mundy: Nature's Music: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening in the Twentieth Century . ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dissertation, abstract) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / udini.proquest.com
  3. ^ Society for Ethnomusicology , website
personal data
SURNAME Duke, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ethnomusicologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1983
Place of death Indianapolis