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Burst of Breath [electronic resource] : Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (444 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803238268
  • 0803238266
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 781.620098 788.1908998 788/.1908998
LOC classification:
  • ML3575.A1 B87 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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.
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.
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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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