The singing of the New World : indigenous voice in the era of European contact

By: Language: English Series: New perspectives in music history and criticismPublisher: 2007Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: 224 s. illISBN:
  • 9780521110174
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.009822
Other classification:
  • Ijv
  • Ijv-qd
Contents:
Introduction: Raised voices ; 1. Unlearning the Aztec cantares ; 2. Metonymy, writing, and the matter of Mexica song ; 3. Cantares mexicanos ; 4. Musicoanthropophagy : the songs of cannibals; 5. Inca singing at Cuzco ; 6. Fear of singing
Summary: A study of ancient music long since silent that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings and indigenous documents for the Mexica (or Aztecs), the Incas and the Tupinamba of lowland Brazil, Tomlinson explores the place of singing in these societies
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Repr. 2008; This digitally printed version 2009

Introduction: Raised voices ; 1. Unlearning the Aztec cantares ; 2. Metonymy, writing, and the matter of Mexica song ; 3. Cantares mexicanos ; 4. Musicoanthropophagy : the songs of cannibals; 5. Inca singing at Cuzco ; 6. Fear of singing

A study of ancient music long since silent that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings and indigenous documents for the Mexica (or Aztecs), the Incas and the Tupinamba of lowland Brazil, Tomlinson explores the place of singing in these societies

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