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Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People
Anthony Seeger
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Multiple-component retail product. Discusses the many roles of song in a native community. Num Pages: 170 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 418.
Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suyá 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 Suyá Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suyá--and by extension for other groups-- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in the initiation ceremony.
Based on over twenty-four months of field research and years of musical exchange, Seeger analyzes the different verbal arts and then focuses on details of musical performance. He reveals ... Read more
Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suyá 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 Suyá Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suyá--and by extension for other groups-- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in the initiation ceremony.
Based on over twenty-four months of field research and years of musical exchange, Seeger analyzes the different verbal arts and then focuses on details of musical performance. He reveals ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072024
SKU
V9780252072024
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About Anthony Seeger
Anthony Seeger is an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, archivist and record producer. He is the director emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and currently teaches ethnomusicology at UCLA.
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Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society, 1988.