Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska (25 June 1929 in

Lwów Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

– 18 October 2021)Ludwik Bielawski, "Ethnomusicology on the turn", Transcultural Music Review #5 (2000) , was a Polish

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and

ethnographer Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

, professor at the

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, daughter of anthropologist

Jan Czekanowski Jan Czekanowski (October 8, 1882, Głuchów – July 20, 1965, Szczecin) was a Polish anthropologist, statistician, ethnographer, traveller, and linguist. He was one of the first persons to use quantitative methods in linguistics. Czekanowski p ...

. She applied statistical-mathematical methods for analysis of

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

.The American Folklife Center, "The Use of Computers in Folklore and Folk Music: A Preliminary Bibliography

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Works

* ''Etnografia muzyczna'' (1971), * ''Ludowe melodie wąskiego zakresu w krajach słowiańskich'' (1972), * ''Kultury muzyczne Azji'' (1981).

References

1929 births 2021 deaths Writers from Lviv Polish ethnographers Polish women musicologists Polish women academics 20th-century Polish women 20th-century Polish musicologists Polish anthropologists Polish women anthropologists Academic staff of the University of Warsaw People from Lwów Voivodeship {{Poland-academic-bio-stub