“How Musical is Man?” was published in 1974. This book was written by John Blacking, a musician turned social anthropologist. His goal in writing this ethnography, as well as several other articles during the same period, was to compare the experience of music-making that takes place within different cultures and societies around the world. In this book he discusses and describes the musicology of the Venda people of South Africa. Although he travels to Africa to research and learn more about the Venda people and their music, he specifically states that his book is "not a scientific study of human musicality" (ix), but rather a summary (written from his point of view). view), both expressive and entertaining, on several different issues and ideas that he seems to have been mulling over for some time. The book is divided into four chapters: 1) Humanly Organized Sound, 2) Music in Society and Culture, 3) Culture and Society in Music, and 4) Well-Organized Humanity. In the first chapter, Blacking discusses the analysis of sound. He begins by describing music as humanly organized sound....