Merriam, Alan P., 1923-1980 (Personal Name)

His Flathead Indian music, 195-.

A Tribute to Alan P. Merriam, c1981: t.p. (Alan P. Merriam) p. ix-x (b. Missoula, Mont., 11/1/23; d. 3/14/80)

Wikipedia, Feb. 25, 2015 (Allan P. Merriam; Alan Parkhurst Merriam; known for his studies of music in Native American (Flathead Indians of Montana) and Africa (Basongye and Bashi people of Zaire, now DR Congo) and Burundi; Ph.D. 1951, Northwestern Univ.; he taught at Northwestern and Univ. of Wisconsin, spent most of his academic career at Indiana Univ.; he was a co-founder of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1952; died in the LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 catastrophe [Warsaw])