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Folk Song Style and Culture explores how song and dance function as nonverbal communications that reveal social structure and cultural history across human civilisation. This volume analyses patterns of performance, theme, text and movement through extensive examination of films and recordings spanning diverse cultures worldwide. Using cantometrics - the methodology of song as a measure of human culture - the work demonstrates how singing traditions map the historical distribution of human societies and how specific performance traits communicate identifiable aspects of social organisation. The book presents systematic methods for understanding the universal relationships between musical expression and cultural identity, offering researchers and students a comprehensive framework for interpreting folk traditions.

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Folk Song Style and Culture applies cantometrics methodology to analyse singing traditions across global cultures and historical periods.

The volume examines large samples of films and recordings to identify patterns in performance, theme, text and movement.

Performance traits are shown to communicate specific information about identifiable aspects of society and social structure.

Routledge's analysis traces how folk singing traditions correspond to the main historic distributions of human culture worldwide.

The book provides systematic methods for understanding universal relationships between song expression and cultural identity.

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02 August 2017
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31 August 2017

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