Publication

2004 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

39,750 words, Guess

Page Count

159 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100252072022
  • ISBN-139780252072024
  • Goodreads911655
  • LibraryThing1628346
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004007220
and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC780/.89/984
  • LCCML3575.B7 S36 2004

Description

"Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suya Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suya - and by extension for other groups - through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in an initiation ceremony." "This new paperback edition features a CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

MusicSuya SongsSuya IndiansEthnomusicologyField recordingsHistory and criticismIndians of South America

Other Editions

  • Why Suyá sing: a musical anthropology of an Amazonian peopleUniversity of Illinois Press2004-01-01

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