Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: an Encyclopedic History Vol. 1 : Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico

by Kuss, Malena

• ISBN13: 9780292702981
• ISBN10: 0292702981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking 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 colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The Universe of Music: A History" project, initiated by and developed in cooperation with the International Music Council, with the goals of empowering Latin Americans and Caribbeans to shape their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150 contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing 36 countries. Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Cultures of South America, Central America, and Mexico, focuses on the inextricable relationships between worldviews and musical experience in the current practices of indigenous groups. Worldviews are built into, among other things, how music is organized and performed, how musical instruments are constructed and when they are played, choreographic formations, the structure of songs, the assignment of gender to instruments, and ritual patterns. Two CDs with 44 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this rich volume.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Native Peoples: Introductory Panorama

Myth, Cosmology, and Performance

Metamorphosis: Mythic and Musical Modes of Ceremonial Exchange among the WakuTnai of Venezuela

Brazil's Indigenous Universe (to ca. 1990): The Xavante, Kamayur_, and Suy_ (

The Yawari Ritual of the Kamayur_: A Xinguano Epic

Music and Worldview of Indian Societies in the Bolivian Andes

Local Practices among the Aymara and Kechua in Conima and Canas, Southern Peru

Amerindian Music of Chile

Musical Culture of Indigenous Societies in Argentina

Fertility Ritual

Music and Healing

The Fundamental Role of Music in the Life of Two Central American Ethnic Nations: The Mfskito in Honduras and Nicaragua, and the Kuna in Panama

Mexico's Indigenous Universe

Musical Traditions of the P'urhTpecha (Tarascos) of Michoac_n, Mexico

Aerophones of Traditional Use in South America, with References to Central America and Mexico

Epilogue

Index

Contributors

Recorded Examples

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