Burst of Breath : Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America.

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"The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of Indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments—including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles—played in s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hill, Jonathan David, 1954- (Editor ), Chaumeil, Jean-Pierre (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2011.
Temas:
Indians of South America > Music > History and criticism.
Wind instruments > South America.
Indians of South America > Rites and ceremonies.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Sud > Musique > Histoire et critique.
Instruments à vent > Amérique du Sud.
MUSIC > Musical Instruments > Woodwinds.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Indians of South America > Music
Indians of South America > Rites and ceremonies
Wind instruments
South America
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Overture; First Movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication; 1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes; 2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians; 3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music; 4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual; 5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World.
  • 6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of SecrecySecond Movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations; 7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: "Sacred" Musical Instruments in the Guianas?; 8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana; 9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes; 10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes; 11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region.
  • 12. An "Inca" Instrument at a "Nawa" Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity; Coda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; 14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred?; 15. Mystery Instruments; Contributors; Index.

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