Burst of Breath Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America
Heftet /
2011
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780803220928
Publisert
2011-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Nebraska Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Biographical note
Jonathan D. Hill is a professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University. He is the editor or author of several books, including Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon. Jean-Pierre Chaumeil is a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). He is the author or editor of several books in Spanish and French.
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 perspective that goes beyond better-documented areas such as the Upper Xingu and northwest Amazon. Some of the authors explore the ways ritual wind instruments are used to introduce natural sounds into social contexts and to cross boundaries between verbal and nonverbal communication. Others look at how ritual wind instruments and their music enter into local definitions and negotiations of relations between men, women, kin, insiders, and outsiders. Closely considering these instruments in their many roles and contexts—in curing and purification, negotiating relations, connecting mythic ancestors and humans today—this volume reveals the power and complexity of the music at the heart of collective rituals across 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 sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America.
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List of Illustrations Overture Jonathan D. Hill and Jean-Pierre ChaumeilFirst Movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes Jean-Pierre Chaumeil2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians Rafael José de Menezes Bastos3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music Jonathan Hill4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual Nicolas Journet5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of Secrecy Marcelo FioriniSecond Movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: "Sacred" Flutes in the Guianas? Marc Brightman8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Traditions of Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana Stephanie W. Alemán9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes Acácio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes Maria Ignez Cruz Mello11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region Ulrike Printz12. An "Inca" Instrument at a "Nawa" Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context Javier Ruedas13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity Robin WrightCoda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred? Claudia Augustat15. Mystery Instruments Jean-Michel BeaudetContributors Index
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"This well-conceived and very well executed volume marks a major advance in discussions of the significance of aerophones and sound over a large area of South America."—Anthony Seeger, Journal of Anthropological Research
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Reveals the power and complexity of the music at the heart of collective rituals across Lowland South America
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780803220928
Publisert
2011-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Nebraska Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet