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.
ANS: B
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