# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-p-merriam
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:14:54.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-p-merriam"
name: "Alan P. Merriam"
slug: "alan-p-merriam"
description: "Alan Parkhurst Merriam was an American ethnomusicologist known for his studies of music in Native America and Africa. In his book The Anthropology of Music (1964), he outlined and develops a theory and method for studying music from an anthropological perspective with anthropological methods. Although he taught at Northwestern University and University of Wisconsin, the majority of his academic career was spent at Indiana University where he was named a professor in 1962 and then chairman of the anthropology department from 1966 to 1969, which became a leading center of ethnomusicology research under his guidance. He was a co-founder of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1952 and held the elected post of president of that society from 1963 to 1965. He edited the Newsletter of the Society for Ethnomusicology from 1952 to 1957, and he edited the journal Ethnomusicology from 1957 to 1958."
tagline: "American ethnomusicologist (1923–1980)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-11-01"
deathDate: "1980-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump