Alan Lomax’s cross-cultural research on music found _____
a. almost no similarities from one society to another
b. some broad correlations between various aspects of music and a culture’s level of subsistence
c. that music in egalitarian, small-scale societies was essentially similar to music in complex, industrialized societies
d. that music in small-scale societies had nonrepetitious texts
e. that music cross-culturally involves precise articulation
ANSWER:
b
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A) Horticultural societies B) Foraging societies C) Agricultural societies D) State societies E) Pastoral societies