Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People, (Paperback)

Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suyá Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing.

In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger' s Why Suyá Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suyá--and by extension for other groups-- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in the initiation ceremony.