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John Anthony Randoll Blacking (22 October 1928 – 24 January 1990) was a British ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist. Blacking began his career with a ground-breaking, 22-month study of the culture and music making of the Venda people of northern South Africa, from 1956 to 1958. In 1965 Blacking became a professor and head of the social…
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TTTA extracted 129 structured relationships around John Blacking. Examples in this analysis include John Blacking → Alma mater → King's College, University of Cambridge, B.A., 1953; University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Ph.D., 1965; D.Litt., 1972 and John Blacking → Born → John Anthony Randoll Blacking (1928-10-22)October 22, 1928 Guildford, Surrey, England. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Blacking | Alma mater | King's College, University of Cambridge, B.A., 1953; University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Ph.D., 1965; D.Litt., 1972 | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Blacking | Born | John Anthony Randoll Blacking (1928-10-22)October 22, 1928 Guildford, Surrey, England | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Blacking | Died | January 24, 1990(1990-01-24) (aged 61) Belfast, Northern Ireland | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Blacking | Doctoral students | Elkin Sithole, Max H. Brandt, John Baily, Gerd Baumann, Maria Ester Grebe-Vicuna, Jose Jorge de Carvalho, Laura Segato de Carvalho, Meki Nzewi, Fumiko Fujita, Joshua Uzoigwe | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Blacking | Fields | social anthropology, ethnomusicology | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Blacking | Thesis | The Cultural Foundations of the Music of the Venda, with Special Reference to Their Children's Songs (1965) | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Blacking | related to Books | Black Background | 0.60 | section |
| John Blacking | related to Books | The Childhood | 0.60 | section |
| John Blacking | related to Books | South African Girl | 0.60 | section |
| John Blacking | related to Books | New York | 0.60 | section |
| John Blacking | related to Books | Abelard-Schuman | 0.60 | section |
| John Blacking | related to Books | ASIN B000WCR9NM | 0.60 | section |
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Source: Wikipedia — John Blacking · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout