Songs That Make the Road Dance : : Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya /

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
VerfasserIn:
O'Brien-Rothe, Linda,
MitwirkendeR:
Christenson, Allen J.,
Orellana, Sandra L.,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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