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Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Cantometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flory, Michael
Other Authors: Lomax, Alan, Paulay, Forrestine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Watertown, MA Documentary Educational Resources (DER) 2008, 2008
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 1
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Collection: Ethnographic Video Online Vol. 1 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Cantometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and measured how those variables clustered geographically and in relation to means of subsistence and aspects of social organization
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013)
Physical Description:1 online resource (10 min.)