Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People |
Contents
Tables | 5 |
from speech to song | 25 |
The origin of songs | 52 |
Singing as a creative activity | 65 |
the mystery of rising pitch in a rainy season song 888 | 88 |
Leaping dancing and singing the Mouses song | 104 |
Why Suyá sing | 128 |
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Abiyoyo absolute pitch activities adult Agachi animals anthropology bathe begin birds body ornaments body paint boys Brazilian capes cassette context dance dancers deer described ethnomusicology euphoria everyday speech example fish forest camp formal friends forms gardens genres glissandi grunt human hunting Hwinkradi iarén important Indian individual instruction invocations Kaikwati Kaluli kapérni Kayabi Kayapo leap and sing learned listened lived log racing maize manioc melody men's house moiety mother Mouse Ceremony mouse singers Munduruku musical performance myth name givers name receiver name set name-based ngére person phrases rainy season songs rattles recording relationships rising pitch ritual specialist river sang sarén second half Seeger shout songs singers sisters slow speech society sounds spirit stripes structure style sung Suyá ceremonies Suyá music Suyá song Suyá village tape throat transformation Trumai unison songs Upper Xingu usually witch women Xingu National Park Yawalapiti young