About the Author

Anna L. Wood is an anthropologist, public folklorist, and president of the Association for Cultural Equity, a not-for-profit organization founded by Alan Lomax. Wood has collaborated with immigrant communities to document, revitalize, and present their traditions and has produced over a hundred scholarly editions of Lomax’s sound recordings. With Jeffrey A. Greenberg and Steve Rosenthal, she was awarded a Grammy for her production of Jelly Roll Morton—The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax and was nominated for Alan Lomax in Haiti.

Reviews

After languishing out of print for many years, this landmark work is finally available to the public again in a new and expanded form. Most importantly, the Cantometrics audio recordings and world music course are online and freely available. This will be of enormous value to all, whether their interests lie in being introduced to new musical styles or in performing state-of-the-art scientific research. I applaud Anna L. Wood and her team for pursuing Cantometrics as a means of promoting cultural equity for all the world's peoples and their musics.--Patrick Savage, professor of scientific musicology at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan

What I prize in Cantometrics is the accent on vocally produced music, on song. While music education in schools encompasses bands, choirs, and orchestras, vocal music is 'back-dropped' and underestimated, even neglected by teachers working with instruments and instrumental ensembles.--Patricia Campbell, ethnomusicologist specializing in world music education at the University of Washington