Research Catalog

Title

Songs of earth : aesthetic and social codes in music : based upon Alan Lomax's Cantometrics : an approach to the anthropology of music / by Anna Lomax Wood ; with Stella Silbert, Karen Claman, Kiki Smith-Archiapatti, & Violet Baron ; foreword by Robert Garfias ; introduction by Victor Grauer ; musical selections by Roswell Rudd ; Cantometrics coding manual by Alan Lomax & Victor Grauer.

Author

Wood, Anna Lomax

Publication

• New York, NY : The Association for Cultural Equity, Inc., 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Silbert, Stella
• Claman, Karen
• Smith-Archiapatti, Kiki
• Baron, Violet
• Garfias, Robert
• Grauer, Victor
• Rudd, Roswell
• Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

Description

xvi, 450 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

"Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analyzing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning. This carefully constructed cross-cultural study of world music revealed deep-rooted performance patterns and aesthetic preferences and their links with environmental factors and ancient socioeconomic practices. This new and updated edition is for anyone wishing to understand and more deeply appreciate the forms and sociocultural contexts of the musics of the world's peoples, and it is designed to be used by both scholars and laypeople. Part One of the book consists of a practical guide to using the Cantometrics system, a course with musical examples to test one's understanding of the material, a theoretical framework to put the methodology in context, and an illustration of the method used to explore the roots of popular music. Part Two includes guides to four other analytical systems that Lomax developed, which focus on orchestration, phrasing and breath management, vowel articulation, instrumentation, and American popular music. Part Three provides resources for educators who wish to use the Cantometrics system in their classrooms, a summary of the findings and hypotheses of Lomax's original research, and a discussion of Cantometrics' criticisms, applications, and new approaches, and it includes excerpts of Lomax's original writings about world song style and cultural equity."-- Publisher's website.

Subject

• Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
• Music and anthropology
• Ethnomusicology
• Musical analysis
• Music > Social aspects
• Music > Performance

Note

• "Featuring online course"--back cover.
• "With additional studies curated by Stella Silbert"--front cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-447).

Call Number

JMF 22-38

ISBN

• 1496840356
• 9781496840356

OCLC

1303730596

Author

Wood, Anna Lomax, author.

Title

Songs of earth : aesthetic and social codes in music : based upon Alan Lomax's Cantometrics : an approach to the anthropology of music / by Anna Lomax Wood ; with Stella Silbert, Karen Claman, Kiki Smith-Archiapatti, & Violet Baron ; foreword by Robert Garfias ; introduction by Victor Grauer ; musical selections by Roswell Rudd ; Cantometrics coding manual by Alan Lomax & Victor Grauer.

Publisher

New York, NY : The Association for Cultural Equity, Inc., 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-447).

Added Author

Silbert, Stella, author.

Claman, Karen, author.

Smith-Archiapatti, Kiki, author.

Baron, Violet, author.

Garfias, Robert, writer of foreword.

Grauer, Victor, writer of introduction.

Rudd, Roswell, contributor.

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002, contributor.

Research Call Number

JMF 22-38