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Cantometrics

Cantometrics ("song measurements") is a method developed by Alan Lomax and a team of researchers for relating elements of the world's traditional vocal music (or folk songs) to features of social organization as defined via George Murdock's Human Relations Area Files, resulting in a taxonomy of expressive human communications style. Lomax defined…

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related to history · 21
Cantometrics → Anthropology Department, Arensberg, Barbara Ayres, Choreometrics, Columbia, Columbia University, Conrad, Culture, Early, Edwin Erickson, Folk Song Style, Forrestine Paulay, Gideon D'Arcangelo, In, Irmgard Bartenieff, Laban, Lomax, Lomax's, Norman Berkowitz, Subsequent
related to External links · 17
Cantometrics → Alan Lomax, American, Arcangelo, Archived, Association, Big Story, Cultural EquityGideon, Essay, Linernotes, Originally, Reproduced, Rounder CD, Song Book, Sound, The Alan Lomax Popular, The Urban Strain, Wayback Machine
related to Cantometrics as an educational tool · 15
Cantometrics → Alan Lomax, Archive, Cultural Equity, Gideon D’Arcangelo, In, Lomax, March, Roswell Rudd, Since Alan Lomax's, That, The Association, The Cantometrics, The Global Jukebox, With, You
related to Criticisms and responses · 7
Cantometrics → Grauer, Lomax, One, Richard Middleton, Ten, The, This
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Cantometrics → Alan Lomax, It, Multipart, Other, The, The Cantometric
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Cantometrics → statistical method, study of these standardized models

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