A Musical View of the Universe : : Kalapalo Myth and Ritual Performances / / Ellen B. Basso.
A Musical View of the Universe is a study of the relationships between spoken myth and musical ritual in a native Brazilian community, the Carib-speaking Kalpalo of the Upper Xingu Basin. The book focuses on the meanings created and expressed through performance of artistic processes in which sound...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1985] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 1985 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Conduct and Communication
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Guide to Pronouncing Kalapalo Words
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Meaning Constructed Through Performance
- Chapter 2. Narrative Performances and Discourse Structures
- Chapter 3. Myth as an Explanatory Mode
- Chapter 4. Sound as Symbol: Orders of Animacy
- Chapter 5. The Government of Grief
- Chapter 6. Fantasies of Erotic Aggression
- Chapter 7. Saturated with Music, Submerged in Sense
- Appendix 1: Transcribing and Translating
- Appendix 2: Kwambi Songs (as sung by Kambe)
- Appendix 3: Songs Called “Birding” (itolotepe) (as sung by Kudyu, Ugaki, Tsarjaku)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Myths