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1 online resource (444 pages) |
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| Summary |
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 sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America. The editors provide a detailed overview of the historical significance, scientific classification, shamanic and cosmological associations, and changing social meanings of ritual wind instruments within Amazonian cultures. These essays present a wide p. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Indians of South America -- Music. |
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Wind instruments -- South America.
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Wind instruments. |
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South America. |
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Indians of South America -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Indians of South America -- Rites and ceremonies. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Chaumeil, Jean-Pierre.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780803220928 |
| ISBN |
9780803238268 |
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0803238266 |
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9780803220928 |
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0803220928 |
| Standard No. |
9786613884718 |
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