Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania)

The Singing of the New World

Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history with early European accounts and modern archaeological findings, Tomlinson explores the place of singing in these societies.

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Produktdetails

• New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110174
• ISBN-10: 0521110173
• Artikelnr.: 26033831

Autorenporträt

Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Raised voices
1. Unlearning the Aztec Cantares
2. Metonymy, writing, and the matter of Mexica song
3. Cantares mexicanos
4. Musicoanthropophagy: the songs of cannibals
5. Inca singing at Cuzco
6. Fear of singing.