Folk Song Style and Culture

Folk Song Style and Culture
ISBN-10
0878556400
ISBN-13
9780878556403
Category
Music
Pages
363
Language
English
Published
1968
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
Authors
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Alan Lomax

Description

Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here relatedto social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement areanalyed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, accordingto the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man,finds that traditions of singing trace the main historic distributions of human culture and thatspecific traits of performance are communications about identifiable aspects of society. Thepredictable and universal relations between expressive communication and social organiation,here established for the first time, open up the possibility of a scientific aesthetics, usefulto planners. Alan Lomax is Director, Cantometrics andChoreometrics Projects at Columbia University.

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