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The Singing of the New World - Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact (Paperback, Digitally Print)
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The Singing of the New World - Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact (Paperback, Digitally Print)
Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
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In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of
ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that
Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural
history, early European accounts, archaeological findings, and rare
indigenous documents for the Mexica (or Aztecs), the Incas, and the
Tupinamba of lowland Brazil, Tomlinson explores the place of
singing in these societies. He details the expressive and ritual
ends it was expected to fulfil before and after the coming of the
conquistadors. Musical practices and the cultural ends they served
come alive across a spectrum that reaches from the cosmogonic
geometry of Inca ritual song through the imminent sacred
materiality of Mexican cantares to the intricate interconnections
of singing, speaking and eating in Tupinamba cannibalism. A final
chapter considers the fears mutually and repeatedly inspired by the
expressive powers of American and European song.
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