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Merriam, Alan P., 1923-1980

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Personal name headingMerriam, Alan P., 1923-1980
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Associated countryUnited States Congo (Democratic Republic)
Birth date1923-11-01
Death date1980-03-14
Place of birthMissoula (Mont.)
Place of deathWarsaw (Poland)
Field of activityMusic and anthropology
AffiliationNorthwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Indiana University
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Society for Ethnomusicology
Profession or occupationEthnomusicologists
Found inHis 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 languageeng