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Why Suya Sing

Why Suya Sing : A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People

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Description

The many roles of song in a native community
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Product details

  • Paperback | 170 pages
  • 178 x 250 x 14mm | 421.85g
  • Baltimore, United States
  • English
  • 0252072022
  • 9780252072024
  • 544,341
  1. Categories:
  2. Music
  3. Music
  4. Theory Of Music & Musicology
  5. Theory Of Music & Musicology
  6. World Music
  7. World Music
  8. Social & Cultural Anthropology

Table of contents

The Mouse Ceremony begins; Suya vocal art: From speech to song; The origins of songs; Singing as a creative activity; From lab to field: The mystery of rising pitch in a rainy season song; Leaping, dancing and singing the Mouse's song; Why Suya sing
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Review quote

"Anthony Seeger spins out enough of an integrated theoretical and empirical mediation on why Suya sing to set a good portion of traditional ethnomusicology on its ear." Steven Feld Yearbook for Traditional Music
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