- Paperback: 170 pages
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press (October 13, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0252072022
- ISBN-13: 978-0252072024
Winner of the American Musical Society's Kinkeldey Award Like many other
South American Indian communities, the Suy Indians of Mato Grosso,
Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music,
especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's
Why Suy Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the
Suy--and by extension for other groups-- through an examination of myth
telling, speech making, and singing in the initiation ceremony. Based on
over twenty-four months of field research and years of musical
exchange, Seeger analyzes the different verbal arts and then focuses on
details of musical performance. He reveals how Suy singing creates
euphoria out of silence, a village community out of a collection of
houses, a socialized adult out of a boy, and contributes to the
formation of ideas about time, space, and social identity. This new
paperback edition features an indispensable CD offering examples of the
myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new
afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suy in their
recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers.
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