Cantometrics

Cantometrics is the analysis of traditionalor folk songs. Initially developed by Alan Lomaxin 1959, this process includes measurements beyond the conventional elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm.

Cantometrics relates folk music to sociologicaltraits, arguing that the characteristics of a culture's traditional music reflect that culture's social organization, including classstratification, gender relations, and sexual mores. This is an example of sociological homology.

Further reading

• Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759.
• Lomax, Alan (1959). "Folk Song Style." American Anthropologist 61 (Dec. 1959): 927-54. [1]

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