Word Count

39,750 words, Guess

Page Count

159 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCML3575.B7 S36 2014

Alternate Titles

  • Container of (work): Amtô: a festa do rato (Motion picture)
  • Container of (work): Festa do rato, Janeiro 1996 (Motion picture)
  • Amtô: mouse ceremony.
  • Mouse ceremony, January 1996.

Description

Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya (or Kisêdjê) Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. Anthony Seeger considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Kisêdjê -- and by extension for other groups -- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in an initiation ceremony.

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