Why Suyá sing
Subtitle: a musical anthropology of an Amazonian people
By: Anthony Seeger.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Suya Indians -- Music -- History and criticism.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156) and index.