1 online resource (video file (33 min.)) : sound, color
Series
Rhythms of Earth
Summary
Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s, undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Choreometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and measured how those variables clustered geographically and in relation to means of subsistence and aspects of social organization