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Songs of Earth - Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music (Paperback)
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Songs of Earth - Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music (Paperback)
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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.
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