Music and the poetics of production in the Bolivian Andes.

Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes is a musical ethnography of a Quechua-speaking community of northern Potosí, in the Bolivian Andes. Based on extensive fieldwork, it explores how music permeates the lives of this group of herders and agriculturalists, and how it is deeply in...

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主要作者: Stobart, Henry
格式: Ouvrage
语言:Anglais
出版: Aldershot Burlington : Ashgate, 2006.
丛编:SOAS musicology series
SOAS musicology series.
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书本目录:
  • Part I : Creating Context
  • Introduction: the poetics of production
  • Worlds of sound: energy, weeping and feeding: the background to music
  • Orchestrating the year: seasonal alternation, calendars,and power
  • Part II Guitars and Song
  • Fabricating tradition and the Macha groove: guitars, artisans, seasonality and performance
  • Marrying the mountain and the production of people: songs of courtship and marriage
  • Part III The Music of a Year
  • May - June: Violent harmony and the making of men: julajula panpipes and harvest time
  • June - October: Cacophony, community and the water war: saints, siku panpipes, and miraculous ''renewal''
  • November - January: Invoking the dead and crying for rain:souls, flutes, llamas and compassion
  • January - February/March Disembodied voices and dancing potatoes: carnival, devils, sirens, musical creation and new potatoes
  • Part IV: Kacharpaya - ''despatch''
  • The fragile community: epilogue.