Estevan -> RE: ROMERITO!! (May 9 2007 19:39:40)
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Aha, the ethnomusicologists are coming out of the woodwork! This is important stuff being discussed, and it shouldn't be in the "Off Topic" department (or even the ROMERITO sub-department - with all due respect[;)]) The insider-outsider theme is such a never-ending one (and one that I'll bring over to our earlier discussion of Indian music and flamenco, if I ever get around to it), and a source of great stories, like the famous Geertz example you mentioned. As for 'cantometrics', I heard about it back in pre-history, probably from Tim Rice - maybe you know him, Juben? I recall something about a correlation between vocal tone and sexual repression. (Of course, there's a bit more to it than that, but these are the kinds of things that stick in the mind...) Here's an article that seems to give a useful synopsis, including: " the example which first let the cat out of the cantometrics bag; 'Folk Song Style and Culture', Introduction. During a major collecting exercise in Spain in 1953, Lomax noticed that the intensity of local sexual prohibition was reflected in the vocal tones adopted by his singers. Thin, harsh, high pitched and piercing, with intense emotional delivery, in the proscriptive south [:@]. Broader, softer, lower pitched and more relaxed in the comparatively permissive north [&:]. A recording trip to Italy, two years later, found the pattern repeated." Discuss amongst youselves [8|] Cantometrics: Song and Social Culture
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