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Paperback Songs That Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya Book

ISBN: 1477305386

ISBN13: 9781477305386

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)

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...

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