
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
- 15 Oct 2004
- University of Illinois Press
- Baltimore, United States
- English
- 0252072022
- 9780252072024
- 544,341
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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