Description
Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya 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 Suya Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suya--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 how Suya singing creates euphoria out of silence, a village community out of a collection of houses, a socialized adult out of a boy, and contributes to the formation of ideas about time, space, and social identity.
This new paperback edition features an indispensable CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers.
The many roles of song in a native community
About the Author
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.
Reviews
Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society, 1988.
Awards
Winner of
Book Information
ISBN 9780252072024
Author Anthony Seeger
Page Count 170
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Dimensions(mm) 127mm * 127mm * 15mm
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 how Suya singing creates euphoria out of silence, a village community out of a collection of houses, a socialized adult out of a boy, and contributes to the formation of ideas about time, space, and social identity.
This new paperback edition features an indispensable CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers.
The many roles of song in a native community
About the Author
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.
Reviews
Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society, 1988.
Awards
Winner of
Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society, 1988.
1988.Book Information
ISBN 9780252072024
Author Anthony Seeger
Page Count 170
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Dimensions(mm) 127mm * 127mm * 15mm
