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Title: Folk Song Style and Culture. With Contributions By the Cantometrics Staff and with the Editorial Assistance of Edwin E. Erickson
Description: Washington D. C.: Washington, D. C, American Association for the Advancement of Science, [, 1971. Second Printing; Hardcover. Ex-Library; B&W frontispiece; 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/4; xix, 363 pages; Hard cover is grey/khaki color with gold lettering on spine. Covers have some rubbing, scuffing, bumping; 3 1/2 x 3/4" section of color cover is split on the spine. Former library book with typical markings. No DJ. Other than the library markings, the pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with charts and diagrams. End papers covered with map of the world, in culture regions and areas. '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.' 3 appendices; bibliography; film sources; index.. Very Good- .

Keywords: Reference; Music; Folk Songs; Folk Music; Folk Lore; Cultural History; Social History; Dance History; Cantometrics; Native American History Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education European History Orient/Asia Geography Music/Opera/Songs World His