Willard Rhodes
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Willard Rhodes's Degrees
- PhD Musicology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Musicology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Music University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Willard Rhodes was an American ethnomusicologist. He is known for his extensive recording of American Indian music between 1939 and 1952. Rhodes grew up in Dunkirk, Ohio and received A.B. and Bachelor of Music degrees from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1929. In France, he studied with Nadia Boulanger. From 1937 to 1969, he served as a professor at Columbia University, where he founded the graduate program in ethnomusicology, and co-founded the Society for Ethnomusicology, serving as that organization's first president.
Willard Rhodes's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Ethnomusicologist (1972) (42)
- Step It Down. Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (1973) (26)
- Toward a Definition of Ethnomusicology1 (1956) (16)
- Music As an Agent of Political Expression (1962) (11)
- A Study of Musical Diffusion Based on the Wandering of the Opening Peyote Song (1958) (9)
- Acculturation in North American Indian Music (1953) (9)
- On the Subject of Ethno-Musicology (1956) (9)
- Musical Creativity of Hausa Children (1977) (6)
- The Steel Drums of Kim Loy Wong (1962) (4)
- Musicology and Musical Performance (Comments on Hood, "Musical Significance") (1963) (2)
- North American Indian Music in Transition. A Study of Songs with English Words as an Index of Acculturation (1963) (2)
- War Whoops and Medicine Songs (1952) (2)
- Society of Ethnomusicology (1956) (2)
- Fellowship Opportunities and Research Grants in African Humanities (1962) (2)
- North American Indian Music: A Bibliographical Survey of Anthropological Theory (1952) (1)
- DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: THE STATE OF AFRICAN MUSIC IN THE FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND* (1961) (1)
- Music of the Americas : an illustrated music ethnology of the Eskimo and American Indian peoples (1973) (1)
- Reference Materials In Ethnomusicology (1967) (1)
- Section Meetings, Saturday Morning, October 13: African Arts and Humanities (1962) (0)
- Lee Hye-Ku: A Birthday Offering (1971) (0)
- Essays for a Humanist: An Offering to Klaus Wachsmann (1977) (0)
- The Christian Hymnology of the North American Indians (1960) (0)
- Geology of the Country around vVaddamana , Central Tasmania (0)
- Old World Overtones in the New World; Some Parallels with North American Musical Instruments (1952) (0)
- Italian Songs and Dances@@@Folk Songs of France@@@Folk Songs of Sweden@@@Folk Songs of Norway@@@Authentic Folk Songs of Japan@@@Pola Chapelle Sings Italian Folk Songs@@@Songs of Love, Play and Protest (1963) (0)
- Asian Music, Vol. I, Nos. 1-2 - Vol. II, Nos. 1-2 (1971) (0)
- To Determine a Sound Plan of Public Relations for the Small Secondary School (1948) (0)
- A Decade of Progress (1963) (0)
- Report of the International Conference, East and West in Music, and the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the International Folk Music Council (1964) (0)
- ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND FOLKLORE: Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology. Bruno Nettl (1965) (0)
- Whaling Songs & Ballads@@@Every Inch a Sailor@@@Fourpence a Day and Other British Industrial Songs (1956) (0)
- The Samaritans: People of the Sacred Mountain (1973) (0)
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