Synopses & Reviews
A study into indigenous music-making in New World societies, including the Aztecs and the Incas.
About the Author
Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Raised voices; 1. Unlearning the Aztec Cantares; 2. Metonymy, writing, and the matter of Mexica song; 3. Cantares mexicanos; 4. Musicoanthropophagy: the songs of cannibals; 5. Inca singing at Cuzco; 6. Fear of singing.