1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004071850403321

Autore

Bablet, Denis

Titolo

Esthétique générale du décor de théâtre : de 1870 a 1914 / Denis Bablet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Edition du CNRS, 1983

ISBN

2-222-00903-0

Descrizione fisica

443 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

751.75

792.02

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

751.75 BAB 1

751.75 BAB 1 (BIS)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788201503321

Titolo

Burst of breath [[electronic resource] ] : Indigenous ritual wind instruments in lowland South America / / edited by Jonathan D. Hill & Jean-Pierre Chaumeil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-57226-5

9786613884718

0-8032-3826-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HillJonathan David <1954->

ChaumeilJean-Pierre

Disciplina

788/.1908998

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Music - History and criticism

Wind instruments - South America

Indians of South America - Rites and ceremonies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Overture; First Movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication; 1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes; 2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians; 3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music; 4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual; 5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World

6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of SecrecySecond Movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations; 7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: "Sacred" Musical Instruments in the Guianas?; 8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana; 9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes; 10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes; 11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region



12. An "Inca" Instrument at a "Nawa" Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity; Coda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; 14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred?; 15. Mystery Instruments; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments-including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles-played in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America. The editors provide a detailed overview of the historical significance, scientific classification, shamanic and cosmological associations, and changing social meanings of ritual wind instruments within Amazonian cultures. Th