The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact

by Gary Tomlinson

Book Overview

In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings, and rare indigenous documents for the Mexica (or Aztecs), the Incas, and the Tupinamba of lowland Brazil, Tomlinson explores the place of singing in these societies. He details the expressive and ritual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521110173
• ISBN13: 9780521110174
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"