Why Suya Sing by Anthony Seeger
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.
Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society, 1988
Anthony Seeger is an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, archivist and record producer. He is the director emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and currently teaches ethnomusicology at UCLA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780252072024 |
| ISBN 10 | 0252072022 |
| Title | Why Suya Sing |
| Author | Anthony Seeger |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Year published | 2004-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society, 1988. 1988 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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