Read Folk Song Style and Culture

Folk Song Style and Culture

Alan Lomax

4.9/5 (12414 ratings)

Description: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 Director, Cantometrics and Choreometrics Projects at Columbia University.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Folk Song Style and Culture. To get started finding Folk Song Style and Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0878556400

Description: 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 Director, Cantometrics and Choreometrics Projects at Columbia University.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Folk Song Style and Culture. To get started finding Folk Song Style and Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Folk Song Style and Culture

Folk Song Style and Culture

More Books

Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World

Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World

America Over The Water: A Musical Journey With Alan Lomax

America Over The Water: A Musical Journey With Alan Lomax

The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music

The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music

Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax

The Land Where the Blues Began

The Land Where the Blues Began

Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945 (American Made Music Series)

Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945 (American Made Music Series)

Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1997

Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1997

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (Updated)

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (Updated)

Alan Lomax in Salento

Alan Lomax in Salento