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'The complexity of folk music': evolution, invention and diffusion in music 2. 'The impress of personality in unwritten music': music as a means of communication and ethnomusicology as social science 3. 'Irregular rhythms': movement, dance, music and ritual 4. 'The world's most lovely melodies': form and feeling in unwritten music 5. Democratic polyphony: political and musical freedom 6. 'the goal of musical progress': music as work or as leisure? 7. 'Let all the world hear all the world's music': popular music-making and music education Appendix A. A common sense view of all music Percy Grainger Appendix B. Musical transcription Percy Grainger Notes Bibliography Index.
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