PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PAST, AND PRESENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LANGUAGE AND MUSICAL STRUCTURES OF KOTIRIA/WANANO WOMEN’S KAYA BASA ‘SAD SONGS’

PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PAST, AND PRESENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LANGUAGE AND MUSICAL STRUCTURES OF KOTIRIA/WANANO WOMEN’S KAYA BASA ‘SAD SONGS’

This dissertation explores the way Kotiria/Wanano (E. Tukanoan, Kotiria hereafter) women of the Brazilian Alto Rio Negro (ARN) contrive (McDowell 1990) kaya basa ‘sad songs’ using linguistic and musical resources to construct songs that express loneliness and other private emotions, while also creat...

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Main Author: Hosemann, Aimee Jean
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2017
Subjects:
Cultural anthropology
Ethnomusicology
Ethnopoetics
Linguistic anthropology
South America
Women and gender
Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1361
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2365&context=dissertations

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https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1361
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2365&context=dissertations

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