Why Suy Sing (Paperback)

Anthony Seeger

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Language: English

Published by University of Illinois Press, Baltimore, 2004

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Paperback. Winner of the American Musical Society's Kinkeldey Award Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suy 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 Suy Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suy--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 Suy 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 Suy in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers. Discusses the many roles of song in a native community. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

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Title
Why Suy Sing (Paperback)
Author
Anthony Seeger
Publisher
University of Illinois Press, Baltimore
Publication year
2004
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0252072022
ISBN 13
9780252072024

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