Mono- versus poly-genesis of music cosmologies in Amazonia and New Guinea
| Autor: | Reigle, Robert F. |
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| Jazyk: | portugalština |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Zdroj: | Música em Contexto; v. 1 (2015): Ano IX-Volume 1-Dezembro 2015; 89-115 Music in Context; v. 1 (2015): Ano IX-Volume 1-Dezembro 2015; 89-115 |
| ISSN: | 1980-5802 |
| Popis: | For more than a century, anthropologists have marveled at the remarkable parallels between Amazonian and New Guinean cultures. How might one account for such similarities? I discovered astonishing parallels between the music cosmologies of Papua New Guinean Nekeni and Amazonian Enauene-Naue peoples, based on the transformation of human voices into spirit voices using musical instruments. Voice modifiers, relatively rare among the world’s instruments, take the form of long tubes for only a few cultures in the world, with both peoples discussed herein applying them in similar contexts. In this paper, I discuss the growing importance of comparison in ethnomusicology and then present observations of two geographically distant music cultures, which support a theory of either mono- or poly-genesis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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