Songs That Make the Road Dance : : Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya / / Linda O'Brien-Rothe.
An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz’utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the “Songs of the Old Ones” are a central vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda O’Br...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Forewords -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE WORLD OF THE TZ'UTUJIL MAYA -- CHAPTER 2. THE DANCE AND SONGS OF THE NAWALS -- CHAPTER 3. THE “SONGS OF THE ROAD”: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS -- CHAPTER 4. THE POETICS OF TZ'UTUJIL SONGS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO K'ICHE'AN LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 5. THE MUSIC OF THE “SONGS OF THE NAWALS” -- Final Words -- Audio Files of Recorded Examples -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Summary: | An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz’utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the “Songs of the Old Ones” are a central vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda O’Brien-Rothe began collecting these songs in 1966, and she has amassed the largest, and perhaps the only significant, collection that documents this nearly lost element of highland Maya ritual life. This book presents a representative selection of the more than ninety songs in O’Brien-Rothe’s collection, including musical transcriptions and over two thousand lines presented in Tz’utujil and English translation. (Audio files of the songs can be downloaded from the UT Press website.) Using the words of the “songmen” who perform them, O’Brien-Rothe explores how the songs are intended to move the “Old Ones”—the ancestors or Nawals—to favor the people and cause the earth to labor and bring forth corn. She discusses how the songs give new insights into the complex meaning of dance in Maya cosmology, as well as how they employ poetic devices and designs that place them within the tradition of K’iche’an literature, of which they are an oral form. O’Brien-Rothe identifies continuities between the songs and the K’iche’an origin myth, the Popol Vuh, while also tracing their composition to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by their similarities with the early chaconas that were played on the Spanish guitarra española, which survives in Santiago Atitlán as a five-string guitar. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781477301104 9783110745337 |
DOI: | 10.7560/301098 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Linda O'Brien-Rothe. |