Folk Song Style and Culture

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Folk Song Style and Culture is a seminal ethnomusicological study by Alan Lomax that analyzes global folk music traditions to explore their social and cultural meanings.

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instanceOf book
ethnomusicology study
aimsTo develop a scientific approach to folk song analysis
relate song style to cultural values
relate song style to social organization
associatedWith Library of Congress field recordings NERFINISHED
World music research
author Alan Lomax NERFINISHED
authorOfForeword Alan Lomax NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes coding scheme for group organization in singing
coding scheme for melodic and rhythmic features
coding scheme for vocal style
focusesOn global folk music traditions
performance style in folk music
relationship between music and culture
relationship between music and social structure
genre ethnomusicology
musicology
hasPart Cantometrics system description
cross-cultural comparison of folk song traditions
statistical analysis of song style
hasReputation seminal work in ethnomusicology
hasSubjectArea cross-cultural analysis
folk traditions
music and society
quantitative methods in musicology
influenced anthropology of music
comparative cultural studies
ethnomusicology
influencedBy comparative musicology tradition
cultural anthropology
functionalism in social sciences
language English
mainSubject comparative musicology
cultural anthropology
folk music
methodology cantometrics
cross-cultural comparison
statistical coding of musical style
notableFor introduction of cantometrics
large comparative dataset of folk songs
systematic global survey of folk song
publicationYear 1968
publisher Augustine Press NERFINISHED
Transaction Publishers NERFINISHED
theoreticalFramework cultural evolution
functionalism in anthropology

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Alan Lomax notableWork Folk Song Style and Culture