Songs That Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya
(Part of the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Series)
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An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitl?n, Guatemala, the "Songs of the Old Ones" are a central vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda O'Brien-Rothe began collecting these songs in 1966, and she has amassed the largest, and perhaps the only significant, collection that documents this nearly...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1477305386
ISBN13:9781477305386
Release Date:August 2015
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.17 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.8" x 10.1"
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