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Folk Song Style and Culture

Folk Song Style and Culture

Lomax, Alan

Hardcover

Country & FolkGeneral SociologyWorld Music

ISBN10: 1138523623
ISBN13: 9781138523623
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 2 2017
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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