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The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact
Gary Tomlinson
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Paperback. A study of indigenous music-making in New World societies, including the Aztecs and the Incas. Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Num Pages: 232 pages, 17 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 382.
In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings, and rare indigenous documents for the Mexica (or Aztecs), the Incas, and the Tupinamba of lowland Brazil, Tomlinson explores the place of singing in these societies. He details the expressive and ritual ends it was expected to fulfil before and after the coming of the conquistadors. Musical practices and the cultural ends they served come alive across a spectrum that reaches from ... Read more
In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings, and rare indigenous documents for the Mexica (or Aztecs), the Incas, and the Tupinamba of lowland Brazil, Tomlinson explores the place of singing in these societies. He details the expressive and ritual ends it was expected to fulfil before and after the coming of the conquistadors. Musical practices and the cultural ends they served come alive across a spectrum that reaches from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521110174
SKU
V9780521110174
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About Gary Tomlinson
Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Honorable Mention: Modern Language Association of America Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize