Description: Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history
Brief description:
Alan Lomax is Director, Cantometrics and Choreometrics Projects at Columbia University.
Review Quotes: A milestone in comparative music research and a ... substantial contribution to comparative ethology. "--American Anthropologist"
It leaps ahead with vision and insight and enriches our understanding of music as human behavior and a part of human culture. "Journal of American Folklore"
A major contribution to the field of nonverbal behavior. "Archives of General Psychiatry"
This volume will stand as a monument to our time. "Science"