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Songs that Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya (Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas)

Linda O'Brien-Rothe

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Description:An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlan, 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 lost element of highland Maya ritual life.This book presents a representative selection of the more than ninety songs in O'Brien-Rothe's collection, including musical transcriptions and over two thousand lines presented in Tz'utujil and English translation. (Audio files of the songs can be downloaded from the UT Press website.) Using the words of the "songmen" who perform them, O'Brien-Rothe explores how the songs are intended to move the "Old Ones"--the ancestors or Nawals--to favor the people and cause the earth to labor and bring forth corn. She discusses how the songs give new insights into the complex meaning of dance in Maya cosmology, as well as how they employ poetic devices and designs that place them within the tradition of K'iche'an literature, of which they are an oral form. O'Brien-Rothe identifies continuities between the songs and the K'iche'an origin myth, the Popol Vuh, while also tracing their composition to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by their similarities with the early chaconas that were played on the Spanish guitarra espanola, which survives in Santiago Atitlan as a five-string guitar.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Songs that Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya (Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas). To get started finding Songs that Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya (Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlan, 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 lost element of highland Maya ritual life.This book presents a representative selection of the more than ninety songs in O'Brien-Rothe's collection, including musical transcriptions and over two thousand lines presented in Tz'utujil and English translation. (Audio files of the songs can be downloaded from the UT Press website.) Using the words of the "songmen" who perform them, O'Brien-Rothe explores how the songs are intended to move the "Old Ones"--the ancestors or Nawals--to favor the people and cause the earth to labor and bring forth corn. She discusses how the songs give new insights into the complex meaning of dance in Maya cosmology, as well as how they employ poetic devices and designs that place them within the tradition of K'iche'an literature, of which they are an oral form. O'Brien-Rothe identifies continuities between the songs and the K'iche'an origin myth, the Popol Vuh, while also tracing their composition to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by their similarities with the early chaconas that were played on the Spanish guitarra espanola, which survives in Santiago Atitlan as a five-string guitar.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Songs that Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya (Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas). To get started finding Songs that Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya (Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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