Preface |
Summary |
Project History |
Cantometrics|
Choreometrics |
Parlametrics |
Urban Strain | Other Studies |
Teaching Tools |
Global Jukebox |
Library of Congress Collection |
Publications |
Acknowledgements
PUBLICATIONS Download the .pdf Nuova ipotesi sul canto folkloristico italiano. Nuovi Argomenti, 17 / 18 (November/ February): 109–135. Alberto Moravia and Alberto Carocci, eds. Folk Song Style: Notes on a Systematic Approach to the Study of Folk Music. International Folk Music Journal VIII: 48–50. Folk Song Style: Musical Style and Social Context. American Anthropologist 61, no. 6 (December): 927–54 Song Structure and Social Structure. Ethnology 1: 425–51 Abbreviated version in The Sociology of Art and Literature: A Reader. Milton C. Albrecht, et al., eds. Pp. 55–71, New York: Praeger, 1970. Cantometrics. Journal of American Folklore Supplement (April): 37–38. (April) Phonotactique Du Chant Populaire. L’Homme: Revue Francaise d’Anthropologie: 1–55. Some Song-Style Clusters: A Preliminary Study. Ethnomusicology 9: 265–71. Evolution of the Traditional Calypso of Trinidad and Tobago: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Song-Change. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. [1967 Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 27: 10: 3382–83 A] The Good and the Beautiful in Folksong. Journal of American Folklore vol. 80, no. 317: 213–35. Special Features of the Sung Communication. In Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts, Proceedings of the 1966 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Pp. 109–27. June Helm, ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Song Styles: An Indicator of Popular Culture. Public Opinion Quarterly 31: 469–70. Abstract of paper presented at the Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Writer’s Report. BMI (February): 12. Brief summary of Lomax’s report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 27, 1966. Folk Song Style and Culture. Washington, D. C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Publ. No. 88. Choreometrics profiles. In Folksong Style and Culture. The Choreometrics Coding Book. In Folksong Style and Culture. The Cantometrics Coding Book. In Folksong Style and Culture
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Africanisms in New World Negro Music. In Research and Resources of Haiti: Papers of the Conference on Research and Resources of Haiti. Pp. 118–154. New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man.
1969 Hentoff, Nat. Jazz & Po 8: 13. 1969 Laban, Juana de. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28: 106–08. 1969 Merriam, Alan P. Journal of American Folklore 82: 385–87. 1969 Naroll, Raoul. Science 166 (October 17): 366–67. 1969 Ostwald, Peter F. Archives of General Psychiatry 20: 734–35. 1969 Seeger, Pete. Sing Out! vol.19, no. 3: 25. 1970 Pantaleoni, Hewitt. African Music Society Journal 4, No. 4: 130–31. 1970 Downey, James C. Ethnomusicology 14: 63–67. 1970 Driver, Harold E. Ethnomusicology 14: 57–62. 1970 Harber, A. Folk Music Journal, vol. 2, no. 1: 57–58. 1970 Krader, Barbara. Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research 6: 113–18. 1970 Nettl, Bruno. American Anthropologist 72: 438–41. 1971 Malmstrom, Dan. Svensk Tidskrift fur Musikforskning 53: 134–36. 1972 Pantaleoni, Hewitt. Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council vol. 4, no.1: 158–61. 1973 Stein, Johanna. Journal of Music Therapy10: 46–51. 1974 Kealinohomoku, Joann W. CORD News 6: 20–24. 1974 Williams, Drid. CORD News 6: 25–29. Choreometrics: A Method for the Study of Cross-Cultural Pattern in Film. Sonderdruck aus Research Film 6: 515–17. –70 The Song Trace: Song Styles and the Ethnohistory of Aboriginal America. Ph. D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1969 [Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 30, no. 9 (1970): 4471–72 B]. Cluster Test of Folk-Song Styles 1260–65. American Anthropologist 72. Printed as Appendix D of Naroll, 1970. Folk Song and Function: A Look at the Lullaby. Cantometric analysis. Unpublished paper. What Have We Learned from Cross-Cultural Surveys? American Anthropologist 72: 1227–88. The Homogeneity of African-Afro-American Musical Style, 181–201. In Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives. Norman E. Whitten, Jr., and John F. Szwed, eds. New York: Free Press. Folk Song Style Codings. American Anthropologist 72: 1266–77. Printed as Appendix E of Naroll, 1970. Deep Significance and Surface Significance: Is Cantometrics Possible? Semiotica 2, no. 2: 173–84. Choreometrics and Ethnographic Filmmaking: Toward an Ethnographic Film Archive. Filmmaker’s Newsletter, vol. 4, no 4. Hacia un enfoque general de la musica en America Latina. In Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research 8: 105–18. Abstract in English: 118–19. Counter-Culture and Rock: A Cantometric Analysis of Retribalization. Youth & Society 4: 3–19. Brief Progress Report: Cantometrics-Choreometrics Projects. In Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 4: 142–45. Appeal for Cultural Equity. World of Music. Quarterly Journal of the International Music Council (UNESCO) in Association with the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation 14 (2): 3–17. The Evolutionary Taxonomy of Culture. Science 177 (July 21): 228–39
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1974 Youngerman, Suzanne. CORD News 6: 6–19 Effects of Infant Carrying Practices on Rhythm in Music. Ethos 1, (4) (Winter, 1973): 387–404. Analysis of Vedic Music. Cantometric analysis. Unpublished paper. Cinema, Science, and Cultural Renewal. Current Anthropology 14: 474–80. Folk Song and Culture: Charles Seeger and Alan Lomax. New York Folklore Quarterly 29 (3): 206–218. Cross-Cultural Factors in Phonological Change. Language in Society, vol. 2: 161–75. Singing: Folk and Non-Western Singing. In New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia 15th Edition XVI: 790–94. Dance and Human History. 16 mm. film. 40 minutes, color. Berkeley: Extension Media Center, University of California, Berkeley.
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(May) Alan Lomax’s "Cantometrics" Links Song Style to Life Style. High Fidelity / Musical America 24: 14–17.
1979 Alter, Judith. Ethnomusicology 23: 500–503. 1979 Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. Ethnomusicology 23: 169–76. (June) Cantometrics Continued: In Search of a Musical Universal. High Fidelity / Musical America 24: 16–19. Ethnomusicological Research and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 3: 99–115. A Note on a Feminine Factor in Cultural History. In Being Female: Reproduction, Power, and Change. Dana Raphael, ed. Pp: 131–37. The Hague: Mouton. Culture-Style Factors in Face-to-Face Interaction. In Organization of Behavior in Face-to-Face Interaction. Adam Kendon, et al., eds. Pp: 457–74. The Hague: Mouton. Alan Lomax. The Screening Room with Robert Gardner. Interview 75 min. DVD 2005 Screening Room DVD series. Studio 7 Arts www.er.org. Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music. Audio Cassettes and a Handbook. Berkeley: Extension Media Center, U. of California.
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Song as a Measure of Man. Music Educators Journal 62: 26–35.1978 Carroll, Jim. Folk Music Journal 3, vol. 4: 385. 1978 Fowler, Charles B. High Fidelity/Musical America 28: MA 10–11. 1979 Barrand, Anthony. Come For To Sing 5 (Spring): 23–25. Abridged version in Sing Out! 27, no. 4 (July/August): 35. 1979 Seeger, Pete. Sing Out! 27, no. 3: 32. 1979 Seeger, Pete Sing Out! 32; no. 4: 35. 1981 Locke, David. Ethnomusicology 25, no 3 (Fall): 527–29. The Variety of Music in a North Indian Village: Reassessing Cantometrics. Ethnomusicology 20: 49–66. Musical Style and Social Change among the Kujamaat Diola. Ethnomusicology 20: 67–86. Tradition and Evolution in Song Style: A Reanalysis of Cantometric Data. Behavioral Science Research 11: 277–308. Lomax, Alan, and Conrad M. Arensberg 1977 A Worldwide Evolutionary Classification of Cultures by Subsistence Systems. Current Anthropology 18: 659–701. Comments on A Worldwide Evolutionary Classification of Cultures by Subsistence Systems: The journal issue includes comments from eight readers (702–705), and a reply from Lomax and Arensberg (705–707); references cited (707–708). For additional comments from readers, see CA 19 (1978): 170–71; (1978): 421–23; (1978): 626–27; and 21 (1980): 128–29; another reply from Lomax and Arensberg is in CA 19 (1978): 627–28. A Stylistic Analysis of Speaking. Language in Society 6: 15–47. Report of a preliminary study of Parlametrics, a coding of conversational samples following the Cantometrics model. Universals in Song. The World of Music: Journal of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin) in Association with the International Music Council (UNESCO) 19: 1–2: 117–129.: 11–28. Theme issue: Universals I. French translation: 131–41. Appeal for Cultural Equity: When Cultures Clash. Journal of Communication 27: 125–38. Abbreviated version in African Music 6, no. 1 (1980): 22–31. Revision of Lomax 1972. Continuity and Discontinuity in Song Styles: An Ordinal Cross-Cultural Classification. In The Performing Arts: Music and Dance. Pp. 93–107. John Blacking and Joann W. Kealiinohomoku, eds. The Hague: Mouton. Factors of Musical Style. In Theory & Practice: Essays Presented to Gene Weltfish. Pp. 29–58. Stanley Diamond, ed. The Hague: Mouton. The Cross-cultural Variation of Rhythmic Style. In Interaction Rhythms: Periodicity in Communicative Behavior. Pp. 149–74. Martha Davis, ed. New York: Human Sciences Press. Handbook for The Longest Trail: A Dance Geography of the American Indian People. Choreometrics Project of Columbia University. Berkeley, California: University of California Extension Media Media Generation. Handbook for teachers and students to accompany the film The Longest Trail. Cantometrics. In International Encyclopedia of Communications, Edition I: 230–33. Alan Lomax as Builder and User of Ethnographic Film Archives. Paper given at the Origins of Visual Anthropology conference: Putting the Past Together. Göttingen, June 20–25. http://www.iwf.de/va-origins/. An Intersection of Disciplines: The Development of Choreometrics in the 1960’s. Paper given at the Origins of Visual Anthropology conference: Putting the Past Together, Göttingen, June 20–25, 2001. http://www.iwf.de/va-origins/. Alan Lomax and Choreometrics. In Envisioning Dance on Film and Video. Judy Mitoma, ed. Routledge Press. http://www.wac.ucla.edu/bishop/articles/lomax2.pdf. Cantometrics: Song and Social Culture —a Response. Musical Traditions 159. Response to a critique of Cantometrics presented by Fred McCormick in Musical Traditions, MT002 (2002). http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/cantome2.htm. Echoes of Our Forgotten Ancestors. The World of Music. Journal of the Department of Ethnomusicology, Otto-Friedrich-University-of-Bamberg 50, 2. Concept, Style and Structure in the Music of the African Pygmies and Bushmen: A Study in Cross-Cultural Analysis. www.eunomios.org/contrib/grauer3/grauer3.pdf. Please do not cite or distribute without permission of author. This is work in progress. |