LC control no. | n 50035978 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Merriam, Alan P., 1923-1980 |
Associated country | United States Congo (Democratic Republic) |
Birth date | 1923-11-01 |
Death date | 1980-03-14 |
Place of birth | Missoula (Mont.) |
Place of death | Warsaw (Poland) |
Field of activity | Music and anthropology |
Affiliation | Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Indiana University University of Wisconsin--Madison Society for Ethnomusicology |
Profession or occupation | Ethnomusicologists |
Found in | His Flathead Indian music, 195-. A Tribute to Alan P. Merriam, c1981: t.p. (Alan P. Merriam) p. ix-x (b. Missoula, Mont., 11/1/23; d. 3/14/80) Wikipedia, Feb. 25, 2015 (Allan P. Merriam; Alan Parkhurst Merriam; known for his studies of music in Native American (Flathead Indians of Montana) and Africa (Basongye and Bashi people of Zaire, now DR Congo) and Burundi; Ph.D. 1951, Northwestern Univ.; he taught at Northwestern and Univ. of Wisconsin, spent most of his academic career at Indiana Univ.; he was a co-founder of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1952; died in the LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 catastrophe [Warsaw]) |
Associated language | eng |