Editing Cantometrics (section)

==Films==

A series of short documentary films demonstrated some of  the results of the team's statistical analysis in dramatic visual terms.<ref>A book that Lomax and Paulay wrote about their findings remains in manuscript.</ref> These were: ''Dance & Human History'' (1974) (40 min.), which examined two important parameters in the Choreometric study, the dominant trace form of the movement and single/multiple articulation of the torso and relates them to geography and type of society; ''Palm Play'' (1977) (27 min.), which examines the use of the palm in dance cross culturally; ''Step Style'' (1977) (30 min.), which examines the use of the foot in dance cross culturally;<ref>An excerpt from Lomax's film ''Step Style'' appeared in the online edition of the [http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/01/30/arts/music/100000001322535/the-lomax-archives.html New York Times of January 31, 2012.]</ref> and ''The Longest Trail'' (1984) (59 min.), which uses Choreometric data as evidence that the Americas were populated by Siberian hunters. In 2009 all four films were included on the DVD ''Rhythms of Earth: The Choreometrics Films of Alan Lomax and Forrestine Paulay'' produced by John Melville Bishop (Media-Generation, 1974–2008), which included old and new interviews with the original participants of the study.<ref>Robert L. Welsch, in his 2009 review of the DVD in [http://www.media-generation.com/Articles/RhythmsVA.pdf ''Visual Anthropology'', 22:241-242, 2009.], cautioned that the films, some of them over 35 years old, now appear dated and warned that the late [[Robert Gardner (anthropologist)|Robert Gardner]], in one of the DVD's special features, was shown chain smoking, nevertheless he judged that students in introductory courses would find the material "dazzling" and pronounced the DVD "must-see for more advanced courses in expressive culture, visual anthropology, and any course involving ethnographic film."</ref> Improvisational jazz musician and composer [[Roswell Rudd]] later collaborated with Lomax and Paulay on an unpublished study called the Urban Strain that used Cantometric and Choreometric analysis to study commercially produced twentieth-century American popular music and dance.