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Singing of the new world : indigenous voice in the era of european contact / Gary Tomlinson.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3575.A12 T66 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomlinson, Gary.
- Series:
- New perspectives in music history and criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Singing--Latin America--History.
- Singing.
- Aztecs--Music.
- Aztecs.
- Incas--Music.
- Incas.
- Tupinamba Indians--Music.
- Tupinamba Indians.
- Music.
- History.
- Latin America.
- Genre:
- History.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge New York : Cambridge Univ Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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 the cosmogonic geometry of Inca ritual song through the immanent sacred materiality of Mexican cantares to the interconnections of singing, speaking, and eating in Tupinamba cannibalism. A final chapter considers the fears mutually and repeatedly inspired by the expressive powers of American and European song.
- Contents:
- Introduction : raised voices
- Unlearning the Aztec Cantares
- Metonymy, writing, and the matter of Mexica song
- Cantares mexicanos
- Musicoanthropophagy : the songs of cannibals
- Inca singing at Cuzco
- Fear of singing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-212) and index.
- Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2007
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0521110173
- 9780521110174
- 9780521873918
- 0521873916
- OCLC:
- 472599138
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