Music in the indigenous societies of lowland South America: the state of the art

The last thirty years have seen a remarkable growth in the ethnomusicology of the South American lowlands. The region has emerged from relative obscurity - a state in which it languished for decades, despite possessing some of the world's oldest descriptions of 'primitive' music - thr...

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Main Authors: Rafael José de Menezes Bastos, David Allan Rodgers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2007-01-01
Series:Mana
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132007000100001&lng=en&tlng=en