“[A. Merriam] neglects to take sufficiently into account the possibilities of critical musical analysis as though from within the culture, be it by a native or a native-trained foreigner.”

— Harold Powers

Harold Powers, review of A. Merriam's The Anthropology of Music, p.171, 167.

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American academic 1928–2007

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Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

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“There is perhaps no example of any conquest in which the natives have been so completely excluded from all share of the government of their country as in British India…. Foreign conquerors have treated the natives with violence, and often with great cruelty, but none has treated them with so much scorn as we…”

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“I am a native in this world
And think in it as a native thinks”

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The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Honolulu, Hawaii: (At a luau) "…a unique native stunt though the Hawaiian food we were made to eat was too revolting for words…. One got rather tired of the native songs & longed for some of our tunes"”

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