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Title Alan Lomax conversation with Robert Gardner from the Screening room
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2008

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Description 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
Analysis Akha
Cultural change and history
Social dances
Dance theory
Movement
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Notes Subtitles in English
Subject Group identity.
Dance.
Social Identification
Dancing
group identity.
Dance.
Group identity.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Documentary films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Courts métrages.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002, film producer, screenwriter, film director, narrator.
Paulay, Forrestine, film director.
Flory, Michael, contributor.
Gardner, Robert, contributor.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), production company.