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Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People Paperback – October 13, 2004

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  • Paperback: 170 pages
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press; PAP/COM edition (October 13, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0252072022
  • ISBN-13: 978-0252072024
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsMusic as the Cultural Core: An Anthropological Adventure
By Dr. Debra Jan Bibel TOP 500 REVIEWER on February 29, 2012
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In my study of Brazilian music and its ethnomusicology, I found very few readily available recordings of Amazonian Amer-Indians and related books, but Anthony Seeger's anthropological sojourn in 1972 to 1973 among the Suyá filled in much of the gap. Indeed, it took me to another and strange world. That his book earned an award is not surprising, for its descriptions are vivid, thorough, and fascinating. He had a family tradition to maintain: his grandfather Charles was a pioneer ethnomusciologist and anthropologist and his musician uncles Pete and Mike need no introduction. For this tribe, music and its performance are not some supplemental aspects of culture; rather, they are integral to its culture, transmitting its myths, constructing and cementing its social relationships, creating its calendar, reflecting its cosmology. The book centers on the Mouse Ceremony, which is a corn harvest rite celebrating the forest mouse that taught the advantages of corn gardens though a song. The book is accompanied by a CD (originally a cassette in the earlier edition) of samples of informal speech, slow speech, myth telling, shout songs, unison songs, and other songs. Photographs, tables, charts, scores, and maps are also provided. This new edition includes an afterword that updates Seeger's perspectives of his initial studies and subsequent follow-up work since 1994 and describes the challenges the Suyá face in modern Brazil. This book is an adventure that will give thought to the various roles of music in our own society.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDefinitely a Favorite!
By Michael Balonek on July 8, 2011
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This is definitely a favorite of mine! A fun, personal narrative of his time among the Suya people, weaving together exciting stories from the field with large, overriding concepts that translate to studying music in any culture. Also includes a fantastic postlude, describing a few subsequent trips/interactions since this work was initially finished. As for the details...I'll let you read them. Fantastic, though!

Seeger makes the distinction in this book between an "anthropology of music" and a "musical anthropology," this book fitting in the latter category. A good read whether interested in/involved in Music, Ethnomusicology, OR Anthropology! [i.e. "non-musical" anthropologists need not worry and should also read this].

If nothing else, you should all buy this book to listen to his wife's "Anthropologist's Wife" song/lament - fantastic, and ever so true. My wife and I truly connected with that song as we first heard it while on our first extended time overseas. :)
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5.0 out of 5 starsRequired for an ethnomusicology course
By Katharine M. Mclaughlin on February 10, 2014
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Bought this in 2006 or 2007, so I don't remember the details. I would still recommend it if you want to learn more about how music shapes and maintains different cultures of people.
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By Linda Fugleberg on March 20, 2015
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It's a book what can I say
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