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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wood, Anna L. C
• Kirby, Kathryn R
• Ember, Carol R
• Silbert, Stella
• Passmore, Sam
• Daikoku, Hideo
• McBride, John
• Paulay, Forrestine
• Flory, Michael J
• Szinger, John
• D'Arcangelo, Gideon
• Bradley, Karen Kohn
• Guarino, Marco
• Atayeva, Maisa
• Rifkin, Jesse
• Baron, Violet
• El Hajli, Miriam
• Szinger, Martin
• Savage, Patrick E
• Livingstone, Steven R.

Titel

The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2022-11, Vol.17 (11), p.e0275469-e0275469

Ort / Verlag

San Francisco: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Standardized cross-cultural databases of the arts are critical to a balanced scientific understanding of the performing arts, and their role in other domains of human society. This paper introduces the Global Jukebox as a resource for comparative and cross-cultural study of the performing arts and culture. The Global Jukebox adds an extensive and detailed global database of the performing arts that enlarges our understanding of human cultural diversity. Initially prototyped by Alan Lomax in the 1980s, its core is the Cantometrics dataset, encompassing standardized codings on 37 aspects of musical style for 5,776 traditional songs from 1,026 societies. The Cantometrics dataset has been cleaned and checked for reliability and accuracy, and includes a full coding guide with audio training examples (