Folk Song Style and Culture by Alan Lomax
Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to 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 that specific traits of performance are communications about identifiable aspects of society. The predictable and universal relations between expressive communication and social organization, here established for the first time, open up the possibility of a scientific aesthetics, useful to planners.Alan Lomax is a network radio host/writer, ethnomusicologist, and record producer. As an anthropologist for Columbia University and Hunter College, he produced the award-winning 1990 PBS television series American Patchwork and the multimedia interactive database The Global Jukebox.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780878556403 |
| ISBN 10 | 0878556400 |
| Title | Folk Song Style and Culture |
| Author | Alan Lomax |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 1978-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 386 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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