George Herzog (ethnomusicologist)

George Herzog (* December 11, 1901 – November 4, 1983) was an American

Georg Herzog studied at the

Herzog was a professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington from 1948 to 1958 where he formally established the Archives of Traditional Music which he had begun collecting in 1936 while he was at Columbia University. His establishing of a formal sound recording archive, in the model of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, shaped the nascent field of ethnomusicology by centering the preservation of sound recordings as a crucial methodological approach in the discipline. This legacy was carried forward by his student Bruno Nettl who continued the work of bring together ethnology and cultural anthropology with historical and systematic musicology.^[2] Herzog was a North American pioneer in the field of ethnomusicology and posed such radical research questions as: "do animals have music?" (1941).^[3]

Herzog was a member of the Board of Advisers of the

• Folk tunes from Mississippi. repr. New York : Da Capo Press, 1977
• with Harold Courlander: The cow-tail switch, and other West African stories. New York: H. Holt and Co. 1947
• Drum Signaling in a West African Tribe. in: Word 1, S. 217–238, 1945
• with
  Frank G. Speck
  : The Tutelo spirit adoption ceremony: reclothing the living in the name of the dead. Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1942
• with Charles G. Blooah: Jabo Proverbs from Liberia: Maxims in the Life of a Native Tribe. London, Oxford University Press 1936
• Research in primitive and folk music in the United States, a survey. Washington, D.C., American council of learned societies 1936
• Die Musik der Karolinen-Inseln : (from the Phonogramm-Archiv, Berlin). Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1936. (= Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908–1910, II B, Bd. 9, 2. Halbband, Eilers, Westkarolinen.)
• A comparison of Pueblo and Pima musical styles. New York City 1935

• Israel J. Katz: Herzog, George. In: Stanley Sadie (ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan, London 1980. v. 8, pp. 527f
• Israel J. Katz: Letters from George Herzog. In: Musica Judaica, 20, 2013–14, pp. 199–248
• Bruno Nettl: Herzog, George. In: Friedrich Blume (ed.): Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Bärenreiter, 2002, vol. 8, pp. 1451–1453
• Bruno Nettl: George Herzog as Scholar and Teacher: The Syncratic American Approach to Ethno-musicology. In: Joahim Braun, Uri Sharvit: Studies in Socio-Musical Sciences. Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan 1998, pp. 17–28
• Daniel Reed: The Innovator and the Primitives: George Herzog in Historical Perspective. In: Folklore Forum, 24/1-2, 1993, pp. 69–92
• Daniel Reed: George Herzog: A contemporary Look at his Work and Ideas. I–II. In: ReSound, 13/3-4, July–October 1994, pp. 1–6 and 14/1-2, January–April 1994, pp. 1–8