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South American Indians and the Conceptualization of Music Shuo Zhang Music Department

South American Indians and the Conceptualization of Music Shuo Zhang Music Department. I Suya and Shavante: Case Studies from Two South American Indian Groups in Brazil. 1.1 General Backgrounds of Suya and Shavante 1.2 From Speech to Song: Suya vocal genres

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South American Indians and the Conceptualization of Music Shuo Zhang Music Department

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  1. South American Indians and the Conceptualization of MusicShuo ZhangMusic Department

  2. I Suya and Shavante: Case Studies from Two South American Indian Groups in Brazil • 1.1 General Backgrounds of Suya and Shavante • 1.2 From Speech to Song: Suya vocal genres • 1.3 Modes of Shavante Vocal Expression

  3. 1.1 General Background

  4. 1.2 From Speech to Song: Suya vocal genres TABLE 1

  5. Ngere (song) Priority of melody of text; Time, text and melody fixed by non-human sources Saren (telling) and sangere (invocation) relative priority of relatively fixed texts over relatively established melodies Kaperni(speech) Priority of text over melody; Text and melody determined by speaker;increasing formalization in public performances FIGURE 1

  6. Distinguish songs/music from speech • priority of its melody over text • fixed mode of its presentation • extensive use of textual repetition • fixed length of its phrases • fixed relations among pitches • unimpeachable authority of its texts • Origin of songs

  7. 1.3 Modes of Shavante Vocal Expression • dawawa(ritual wailing) • dano?re(collective singing) • political oratory/plaza speech

  8. II Data Analysis 2.1 Speech-music continuum 2.2 Conceptualizing music—criteria for definition and scope

  9. Single vs. Multiple Criteria for conceptualizing music

  10. 2.3 The Whorf Hypothesis LANGUAGE THOUGHT ? Lexicon Grammatical Categories Cultural Patterns

  11. Color Studies A stage VII language would add one or more of the following in any order: purple, pink, orange, grey.

  12. 2.4 Music as a mystic power • Suya: non-human origin • Shavante: learned through dreams • Ancient Greek: unite power • American: musical talent, gift

  13. III Extended Comparison and Analysis • 3.1 A Case study of Kino people in East Asia

  14. Conclusion

  15. THANK YOU

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