Music has a range of different functions in different cultures

Nettl, Bruno, 1930- . Study of ethnomusicology : thirty-one issues and concepts / Bruno Nettl. New ed. 0252030338 (cloth : alk. paper) series Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3798 .N47 2005

Music has a range of functions in different cultures

. Worlds of music : an introduction to the music of the world's peoples / Jeff Todd Titon, general editor. 4th ed. 0534591035 series Belmont, Calif. : Schirmer/Thomson Learning, 2001, c2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3545 .W67 2002
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3545 .W67 2002

"Music fulfils a wide range of functions in different societies, in entertainment, ritual, healing and in the maintenance of social and natural order" (1:Cross 2008)

"music and language" Annual review of anthropology [0084-6570]

Music is often understood as only communicating emotion

. Music and emotion : theory and research / edited by Patrik N. Juslin and John A. Sloboda. 0192631888 (Pbk.) series Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3830 .M965 2001

Music appears to constitute a communicatin system

. Musical communication / edited by Dorothy Miell, Raymond MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves. 0198529368 (pbk. : alk. paper) series Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3830 .M9822 2005

Music is an interactive and participatory medium

Small, Christopher, 1927- . Musicking : the meanings of performing and listening / Christopher Small. 0819522562 (alk. paper) series Hanover, NH : University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, c1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3845 .S628 1998