1st Edition

Folk Song Style and Culture

By Alan Lomax Copyright 1968
386 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. The Stylistic Method, 2. The Cantometrics Experiment, 3. The Cantometric Coding Book, 4. The World Song Style Map, 5. Consensus on Cantometric Parameters, 6. Song as a Measure of Culture, 7. Social Solidarity, 8. Self-Assertion, Sex Role, and Vocal Rasp, 9. Effects of Infantile Stimulation on Musical Behavior, 10. Dance Style and Culture, 11. Choreometric Profiles, 12. The Choreometric Coding Book, 13. Folk Song Texts as Culture Indicators, 14. Cantometrics in Retrospect, Appendix 1. Data Systems and Programming, Appendix 2. Statistical Notes, Appendix 3. Summodal Profiles for Nine World Song Style Regions, Bibliography, Folk Song Text Sources, Film Sources, Index

Biography

Alan Lomax