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description: Like many other South American Indian communities the Suya 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 Suya Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suya - and by extension for other groups - through an examination of myth telling speech making and singing in an initiation ceremony. This new paperback edition features a 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 Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers.
language: English
title: Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People
publisher: Cambridge University Press