1953. "Edward Simpson, alias 'Flint Jack': A Victorian Craftsman." Antiquity 27 (December):207-11.

1954-55. "Musical Instruments of the Malayan Aborigines." Federation Museums Journal N.S. 1-2:35-52.

1955a. "Eight Flute Tunes from Butembo." African Music 1(2):24-52.

1955b. "Notes on a Theory of Rhythm Proposed by von Hornbostel." African Music 1(2):12-20.

1957. The Role of Music amongst the Venda of the Northern Transvaal. Roodeport: International Library of African Music.

1959a. "Fictitious Kinship amongst Girls of the Venda of the Northern Transvaal." Man 59:155-58.

1959b. "Patterns of Nsenga Kalimba Music." African Music 2(4):26-43.

1959c. "Problems of Pitch, Pattern, and Harmony in the Ocarina Music of the Venda." African Music 2(4):15-23.

1961. "The Social Value of Venda Riddles." African Studies 20:1-32.

1962. "Musical Expeditions of the Venda." African Music 3(1):54-72.

1963. "Letter to the Editor." African Music 3(2):60.

1963-65. Music from Petauke (Zambia), vol. 1 and 2. Long-playing records with notes. Roodeport: Ethnic Folkways Library FE 4201,4203.

1964a. "Some Social Effects of Migrant Labour on Rural Africans." Black Sash (Johannesburg).

1964b. Black Background: The Childhood of a South African Girl . London and New York: Abelard Schuman.

1965a. "Myths about Man and Society." Scientific South Africa (March):207-11.

1965b. "The Role of Music in the Culture of the Venda of the Northern Transvaal." In M. Kolinski, ed., Studies in Ethnomusicology , vol. 2, pp. 20-52. New York: Oak Publications.

1966a. "Comment on A. P. Merriam, The Anthropology of Music." Current Anthropology 7:218.

1966b. "Studying and Developing Music in East Africa." In East Africa's Cultural Heritage (Contemporary East African Monographs 4), pp. 37-44. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, for East African Institute of Social and Cultural Affairs.

1966c. "Music in Uganda." African Music Society Journal 14-17.

1967a. "Problems of Government in African States." Black Sash (February-April) 2-11.

1967b. Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis . Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.

1968a. "Percussion and Transition." Man 3(2):313-14.

1968b. "Art and Culture in Africa's Economic Development." In The Challenge of Development in Africa (Contemporary East African Monographs 4), pp. 106-17. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, for East African Institute of Social and Cultural Affairs.

1968c. "The Identification of Different Musical Styles and their Historical and Sociological Foundations, with Special Reference to the Music of the Venda." Music and History in Asia and Africa. London: Royal Anthropological Institute.

1969a. Process and Product in Human Society (Inaugural lecture). Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.

1969b. "Initiation and the Balance of Power: The Tshikanda Girl's Initiation of the Venda of Northern Transvaal." In Ethnological and Linguistic Studies in Honour of N J van Warmelo (Ethnological Publications 52), pp. 31-38. Pretoria: Department of Bantu Administration and Development.

1969c. "Songs, Dances, Mimes and Symbolism of Venda Girl's Initiation Schools, Parts 1-4." African Studies 28(1-4).

1970a. "The Myth of Urban Man." In H L Watts, ed., Focus on Cities , pp. 228-38. Durban: University of Natal.

1970b. "Tonal Organization in the Music of Two Venda Initiation Schools." Ethnomusicology 14(1):1-54.

1971a. "Man and Music." The Times Literary Supplement (19 November), 1443-44.

1971b. "Music in the Historical Process of Vendaland." In K. P. Wachsmann, ed., Essays on Music and History in Africa, pp. 185-212. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

1971c. "Towards a Theory of Musical Competence." In E. J. Jager, ed., Man: Anthropological Essays Presented to O. F. Raum, pp. 19-34. Cape Town: C. Struik.

1971d. "The Value of Music in Human Experience." Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 1 (1969):33-71.

1972. "Deep and Surface Structures in Venda Music." Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 3 (1972):91-108.

1973a. "Fieldwork in African Music." In Dominique Rene de Lerma, ed., Reflections on Afro-American Music, pp. 207-21. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.

1973b. How Musical is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press.
1974a. Venda Music. Set of audio tapes with notes to accompany How Musical is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press.

1974b. "Ethnomusicology as a Key Subject in the Social Sciences." In Memoriam Antoni Jorge Dias, vol. 3, pp. 71-93. Lisbon.

1974c. Man and Fellowman (Inaugural lecture). Belfast: The Queen's University of Belfast.

1976a. "Dance, Conceptual Thought and Production in the Archaeological Record." In G de G. Sieveking, I. H. Longworth, and K. E. Wilson, eds., Problems in Economic and Social Archaeology, pp. 3-13. London: Duckworth.

1976b. "The Value of Musical Experience in Venda Society." The World of Music 18(2):23-28.

1977a. "Can Musical Universals Be Heard?" The World of Music 19(1-2):14-22.

1977b. "An Introduction to Venda Traditional Dances." Dance Studies 2:34-56.

1977c. "L'Homme producteur de musique." Musique en jeu 28:54-67; 29:108-16.

1977d. Editor. The Anthropology of the Body (ASA Monograph 15). London: Academic Press.

1977e. "Towards an Anthropology of the Body." In J. Blacking, ed., The Anthropology of the Body , 1-28. London: Academic Press.

1978a. Affect, Intellect and the Arts (Graduation address). Totnes (Devon): Dartington College

1978b. "Uses of the Kinship Idiom in Friendships as Some Venda and Zulu Schools." In J. Argyle and E Preston-Whyte, eds., Social System and Tradition in Southern Africa, pp. 101-17. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

1979a. Editor, and "Introduction." Special issue on "Aspects of Family Life in Ireland." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 10(2):i-viii.

1979b. Editor, with Joann Keali'inohomoku, and "Introduction" and "The Study of Man as Music-Maker." The Performing Arts: Music and Dance , pp. xiii-xxii and 3-15. The Hague: Mouton.

1979c. "Music is Multimedia Communication." World Association of Christian Churches Journal 26(2):3-7.

1979d. "The Power of Ideas in Social Change: The Growth of the Africanist Idea in South Africa." In D. Riches, ed., The Conceptualisation and Explanation of Processes of Social Change (The Queen's University Papers in Social Anthropology 3), pp. 104-40. Belfast: Queen's University.

1979e. "Some Problems of Theory and Method in the Study of Musical Change." Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 9:1-26.

1980a. "Ethnomusicology in Great Britain since 1945." Acta Musicologia 52(1):62-68.

1980b. "Political and Musical Freedom in the Music of Some Black South African Churches." In L. Holy and M. Stuchlik, eds., The Structure of Folk Models (ASA Monograph, No. 20), pp. 35-62. London: Academic Press.

1980c. Le sens musical. Paris:Les edition de minuit.

1980d. "Trends in the Black Music of South Africa, 1959-1969." In E. May, ed., Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction, pp. 195-215. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1980e. "Venda Music." In S. Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 19, pp. 596-602. London: MacMillan.

1981a. "Ethnography of Musical Performance." In D. Heartz and B. C. Wade, eds., Report of the 12th IMS Congress (Berkeley, 1977), pp. 383-401. Basel: Barenreiter Kassel.

1981b. "Making Artistic Popular Music: The Goal of True Folk." Popular Music 1:9-14.

1981c. "Music in Village Development and Development Research." Jipemoyo: Development and Culture Research 4, pp. 61-72. Helsinki: Institute for Development Studies, University of Helsinki.

1981d. "The Problem of 'Ethnic' Perceptions on the Semiotics of Music." In W. Steiner, ed., The Sign in Music and Literature, pp. 184-94. Austin: The University of Texas Press.

1981e. "Traditional Music." In Roland Oliver and Michael Crowder, eds., The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Africa, pp. 443-45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1982a. "A Case for the Arts." In K. Robinson, ed., The Arts and Higher Education (Research into Higher Education Monographs 48), pp. 26-50. Guildford: Society for Research into Higher Education, University of Surrey.

1982b. "Songs and Dances of the Venda People." In D. Tunley, ed., Music and Dance: Fourth National Symposium of the Musicological Society of Australia, pp. 90-105. Nedlands: University of Western Australia.

1982c. "Southern Africa." In The Atlas of Mankind, pp. 100-103. London: Mitchell Beazley.

1982d. "A Special Kind of Knowledge." The Times Higher Education Supplement (23 April):12.

1982e. Audio-Visual Equipment for Fieldwork in Social Anthropology: A Short Guide for the Social Science Research Council. London: Social Science Research Council. Pamphlet.

1982f. "Tradition and Change in Society." International Music EducationYearbook 9:10-21.

1983a. "The Concept of Identity and Folk Concepts of Self: A Venda Case Study." In Anita Jacobson-Aidding, ed., Identity: Personal and Socio-Cultural, pp. 47-65. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell.

1983b. "Ethnomusicology and Human Development." Cambridge Anthropology 8(1):2-16.

1983c. Cultural Development in Papua New Guinea. Research report to UNESCO, Geneva.

1983d. "Movement and Meaning: Dance in Social Anthropological Perspective." Dance Research:(Spring): 89-99.

1983e. "New Babel or New Jerusalem: Cosmic Consciousness or Cultural Apartheid?" Studies in Music (University of Western Australia)17:9-22.

1983f. "The Structure of Musical Discourse: The Problem of the Song Text." Yearbook for Traditional Music 14 (1982):15-23.

1984a. "The Study of 'Music' as Cultural System and Human Capability." South African Journal of Musicology 4:1-15.

1984b. "What Languages Do Musical Grammars Describe?" In M. Baroni and L. Callegari, eds., Musical Grammars and Computer Analysis, pp. 363-70. Florence: Leo S. Olschki.

1985a. "The Context of Venda Possession Music: Reflections on the Effectiveness of Symbols." Yearbook for Traditional Music 17:64-87.

1985b. "A False Trail for the Arts: 'Multicultural' Music Education and the Denial of Individual Creativity." In M. Ross, ed., The Aesthetic in Education, pp. 1-27. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

1985 c. "Movement, Dance, Music and the Venda Girls' Initiation Cycle. In P. Spencer, ed., Society and the Dance, pp. 64-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1985d. "Universal Validity in Musical Analysis." Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music (United Kingdom chapter) 12:13-22.

1985e. "Versus gradus novos ad Parnassum musicum: exemplum Africanum." In D. McAllester, ed., Becoming Human through Music: The Weslyan Symposium on the Perspectives of Social Anthropology in the Teaching and Learning of Music, pp. 43-52. Middleton, Conn.: Weslyan University.

1986a "Development Studies and the Reinvention of Tradition." In L. Brown and M. Veitch, eds., The Relevance of Development Studies to the Study of Change in Contemporary Britain, pp. 112-26 . London. Economic and Social Research Council.

1986b. Culture and the Arts. London: National Association for Education in the Arts.

1986c. "Graduation as Initiation." Private View 5 (Spring):13-22.

1986d. "Identifying Processes of Musical Change." The World of Music 28(1):3-15.

1986e. Come e musicale l'uomo? Milano: Edizioni Unicopli.

1986f. I Ekfrasi tis Anthropinis Mousikotitas. Athens: Nefeli.

1986g. "Musicology and the Extension of Musical Praxis and Human Musical Experience." Boletim da Associação Portuguesa de Educação Musical 48:9-13.

1987a. "Coda: Making Musical Sense of the World." In A. L. White, ed., Lost in Music: Culture, Style and Musical Event (Sociological Review Monograph 34), pp. 259-64. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

1987b. "Development Studies and the Reinvention of Tradition." World Development 15(4):527-32.

1987c. "Games and Sports in Pre-Colonial African Societies." In W. J. Baker and J. A. Managan, eds., Sport in Africa: Essays in Social History, pp. 3-22. New York: Africana Publishing.

1987d. "Intention and Change in the Performance of European Hymns by Some Black South African Churches." In G. Moon, ed., Transplanted European Music Cultures: Miscellanea Musicologica (Adelaide Studies in Musicology 12), pp. 193-200. Adelaide.

1987e. A Commonsense View of All Music: Reflections on Percy Grainger's Writings on Ethnomusicology and Music Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1987f. "Le percezoni 'ethniche'." In L. Marconi and G. Stefani, eds., Il sense i musica: antologia di semioica musical, pp. 267-77. Bologna: Editrice CLUEB.

1987-88. "Dancing." A series of six ca. 30-minute television programmes produced by Ulster Television Ltd., Belfast.

1988a. "Dance and Music in Venda Children's Cognitive Development." In G. Jahoda and I. M. Lewis, eds., Acquiring Culture: Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development, pp. 91-112. London: Croom Helm.

1988b. "Ethnomusicology and Prehistoric Music-Making." In E. Hickmann and D. W. Hughes, eds., The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures, pp. 329-35. Bonn: Verlag fur systematische Musikwissenschaft.

1988c. "Reinventing Tradition: The Future of Cultural Studies in Africa." In C. Fyfe and C. Allen, eds., African Futures: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Conference, pp. 313-29. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, Centre for African Studies.

1988d. With H Donnan, G. McFarlane, et al. "A Review of Anthropological Research in Ireland, North and South." In L. O'Dowd, ed., The State of Social Science Research in Ireland, pp. 95-110. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

1988e. With Kieran Byrne and Kate Ingram. "Looking for Work in Larne: A Social Anthropological Study." In H. Donnan and G. McFarlane, eds., Social Anthropology and Public Policy in Northern Ireland, pp. 67-89. Aldershot (Hants.): Avebury Press.

1989a. "Challenging the Myth of 'Ethnic' Music: First Performances of a New Song in an African Oral Tradition, 1961." Yearbook for Traditional Music 21:17-24.

1989b. "Problems in the Documentation and Analysis of Ritual." In D. Law and P. Y. Tsao, eds., Studies of Taoist Rituals and Music of Today, pp. 1-18. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1992. "The Biology of Music-Making." In H. Myers, ed., Ethnomusicology: An Introduction. London: Macmillan.

1995. Edited and with an introduction by Reginald Byron. Music, Culture and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

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