What are the universal features of music?
We collect ethnographic text and audio recordings from all over the world.
We use them to determine the behavioural, social, acoustical, and musical
features that characterize the world's songs.
This provides a public resource to advance the scientific and humanistic
study of music.
We collect ethnographic text and audio recordings from all over the world.
We use them to determine the behavioural, social, acoustical, and musical
features that characterize the world's songs.
This provides a public resource to advance the scientific and humanistic
study of music.
Music is a signature of the human experience. A ubiquitous, ancient, and
uniquely human activity, music, and especially song, appears in most human
cultures with staggering diversity. But two fundamental questions — whether
there is underlying structure to the world’s music and how that structure
varies across human cultures — have been perennially difficult to address.
A key roadblock has been the lack of systematic, cross-cultural information
about music.
The Natural History of Song addresses this gap.
NHS Ethnography contains nearly 5,000 descriptions of songs and song
performances from 60 human societies. It includes some 500,000 words of
ethnographic text, including translations of over 2,000 songs' lyrics.
A team of researchers obtained texts from the Human Relations Area
Files and coded them into more than 60 variables.
These include the demographics of singers and audience members; the time of
day and duration of singing; the presence of instruments, objects, and special
attire; and more.
Research assistants also used keywords to describe the events leading up to
a song performance, as well as its behavioural context, function, and lyrical
content. These data reveal the behavioural and social structure underlying
the world's songs.
see ---- https://www.themusiclab.org/nhs
uniquely human activity, music, and especially song, appears in most human
cultures with staggering diversity. But two fundamental questions — whether
there is underlying structure to the world’s music and how that structure
varies across human cultures — have been perennially difficult to address.
A key roadblock has been the lack of systematic, cross-cultural information
about music.
The Natural History of Song addresses this gap.
NHS Ethnography contains nearly 5,000 descriptions of songs and song
performances from 60 human societies. It includes some 500,000 words of
ethnographic text, including translations of over 2,000 songs' lyrics.
A team of researchers obtained texts from the Human Relations Area
Files and coded them into more than 60 variables.
These include the demographics of singers and audience members; the time of
day and duration of singing; the presence of instruments, objects, and special
attire; and more.
Research assistants also used keywords to describe the events leading up to
a song performance, as well as its behavioural context, function, and lyrical
content. These data reveal the behavioural and social structure underlying
the world's songs.
see ---- https://www.themusiclab.org/nhs
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