Burst of breath : indigenous ritual wind instruments in lowland South America / edited by Jonathan D. Hill & Jean-Pierre Chaumeil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-

Chaumeil, Jean-Pierre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Music--History and criticism.

Indians of South America.

Wind instruments--South America.

Wind instruments.

Indians of South America--Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments-including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles-played in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America. The editors provide a detailed overview of the historical significance, scientific classification, shamanic and cosmological associations, and changing social meanings of ritual wind instruments within Amazonian cultures. Th

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Overture; First Movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication; 1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes; 2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians; 3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music; 4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual; 5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World

6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of SecrecySecond Movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations; 7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: "Sacred" Musical Instruments in the Guianas?; 8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana; 9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes; 10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes; 11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region

12. An "Inca" Instrument at a "Nawa" Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity; Coda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; 14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred?; 15. Mystery Instruments; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613884718

9781283572262

1283572265

9780803238268

0803238266

OCLC:

811490692