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Book SynopsisTaking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian c
Trade Review"Simply put, this is a wonderful--in some respects even an extraordinary--book. From one end to the other, it strikes a series of elegant balances on every level." Allan W. Atlas, Distinguished Professor of Music, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Table of Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Native Peoples: Introductory Panorama (Carol E. Robertson)
- Myth, Cosmology, and Performance (Carol E. Robertson)
- Metamorphosis: Mythic and Musical Modes of Ceremonial Exchange among the Wakuénai of Venezuela (Jonathan D. Hill)
- Brazil's Indigenous Universe (to ca. 1990): The Xavante, Kamayurá, and Suyá (Elizabeth Travassos)
- The Yawari Ritual of the Kamayurá: A Xinguano Epic (Rafael José de Menezes Bastos)
- Music and Worldview of Indian Societies in the Bolivian Andes (Max Peter Baumann)
- Local Practices among the Aymara and Kechua in Conima and Canas, Southern Peru (Thomas Turino)
- Amerindian Music of Chile (Maria Ester Grebe)
- Musical Culture of Indigenous Societies in Argentina (Irma Ruiz)
- Fertility Ritual (Carol E. Robertson)
- Music and Healing (Carol E. Robertson)
- The Fundamental Role of Music in the Life of Two Central American Ethnic Nations: The Mískito in Honduras and Nicaragua, and the Kuna in Panama (Ronny Velásquez)
- Mexico's Indigenous Universe (Marina Alonso Bolaños)
- Musical Traditions of the P'urhépecha (Tarascos) of Michoacán, Mexico (E. Fernando Nava López)
- Aerophones of Traditional Use in South America, with References to Central America and Mexico (Dale A. Olsen)
- Epilogue (Carol E. Robertson)
- Index
- Contributors
- Recorded Examples
