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Title:

Burst of breath : indigenous ritual wind instruments in lowland South America / edited by Jonathan D. Hill & Jean-Pierre Chaumeil.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

433 p. : ill., maps : 23 cm.

Subject:

Indians of South America--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Wind instruments--South America.
Indians of South America--Rites and ceremonies.

Other Authors:

Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-
Chaumeil, Jean-Pierre.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Speaking tubes : the sonorous language of Yagua flutes / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil -- Leonardo, the flute : on the sexual life of sacred flutes among the Xinguano indians / Rafael Jos©♭ de Menezes Bastos -- Soundscaping the world : the cultural poetics of power and meaning in Waku©♭nai flute music / Jonathan Hill -- Hearing without seeing : sacred flutes as the medium for an avowed secret in Curripaco mascline ritual / Nicolas Journet -- Flutes in the Warime : musical voices in the Piaroa world / Alexander Mansutti Rodriguez -- Desire in music : soul-speaking and the power of secrecy / Marcelo Fiorini -- Archetypal agents of affinity : "sacred" musical instruments in the Guianas? / Marc Brightman -- From flutes to boom boxes : musical symbolism and change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana / Stephanie W. Alem©Łn -- From musical poetics to deep language : the ritual of the Wauja sacred flutes / Ac©Łcio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade -- The ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawok©Ł flutes / Maria Ignez Cruz Mello -- Spirits, ritual staging, and the transformative power of music in the Upper Xingu region / Ulrike Prinz -- An "Inca" instrument at a "Nawa" feast : Marubo flutes and alterity in Amazonian context / Javier Ruedas -- Arawakan flute cults of Lowland South America : the domestication of predation and the production of agentivity / Robin Wright -- Sacred musical instruments in museums : are they sacred? / Claudia Augustat -- Mystery instruments / Jean-Michel Beaudet.

ISBN:

0803220928 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780803220928 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)752472032

LCCN:

2011037139

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)