Appeal for cultural equity

Authors

  • Alan Lomax American musicologist and collector of folk music in America and Europe, Columbia University, New York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v6i1.1092

Abstract

Man has a more indirect relation to nature than most other animals because his environmental tie is normally mediated by a cultural system. Since human adaptation has been largely cultural rather than biological, human sub-species are rather the product of shifts in learned culture patterns than in genetically inherited traits. It is the flexibility of these culture patterns — composed of technique, social organization, and communication — that has enabled the human species to flourish in every zone of the planet.

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Published

1980-07-01

How to Cite

Lomax, Alan. 1980. “Appeal for Cultural Equity”. African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music 6 (1):22-31. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v6i1.1092.