Songs of Earth

Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4968-4035-6
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm

Provides a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analysing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Andere zeitgenössische Musikrichtungen

Über Autor(innen)

Anna L. Woodis an anthropologist, public folklorist, and president of the Association for Cultural Equity, a not-for-profit organization founded by Alan Lomax. Wood has collaborated with immigrant communities to document, revitalize, and present their traditions and produced over a hundred scholarly editions of Lomax’s sound recordings. With Jeffrey A. Greenberg and Steve Rosenthal, she was awarded a Grammy for her production of Jelly Roll Morton—The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax and was nominated for Alan Lomax in Haiti.