Title Songs that make the road dance : courtship and fertility music of the Tz'utujil Maya / Linda O'Brien-Rothe

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas. Contents Forewords; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Personal Note; Research in Santiago Atitlán; 1. The World of the Tz'utujil Maya; The World of Spirits; "Song of the Spirit-Lord of the World" ("B'ix rxin Rajau Mund"); Duality and Metaphor in the Santo Mundo; The Presence of the Nawals; 2. The Dance and Songs of the Nawals; Old Mam Creates the Recibos; The Song of APla's Sojuel ("B'ix rxin APla's Sojuel"); Dance, Movement, and Songs: The Divine Currency of Sacrifi ce; Dancing the Bundle of San Martín; Midwife's Prayer and "Song of San Martín" ("B'ix rxin Martín") Rocking the Cradle of the Marias"Song of the Rocking Cradle"; Dancing the Wind-Men and the Rain-Men; Rousing San Martín and the Spirit-Lords of Rain with Song; "Song of Martín" ("B'ix rxin Martín"); Calling the Spirits of the Dead and the Drowned with Songs; 3. The "Songs of the Road": Texts and Contexts; The Road in the Tz'utujil Maya World; Old Mam, the Guardian of the Road, Creates Music and Dance; The "Songs of Mam" ("B'ix rxin Mam"); The First and Second "Songs of the Road"; The "Third Song of the Road": Songs of Courtship and Fertility; "Songs of the Young Man" ("B'ix rxin C'jol") "Songs of the Young Girl" ("B'ix rxin K'poj")"AtPal": A Song of Courting; "Songs of the Young Men and Young Girls, of Insults and Ridicule" ("B'ix rxin C'jola K'poja Xyo'k'a Xtz'u'ja"); "Songs of the Old Maid"; Witchcraft and Shapeshifters in the Songs; "Songs of the Young Girl" ("B'ix rxin K'poj"); The "Sad Songs" or "Tristes"; "They Fought" ("Xqueti' qui'"); "Sad Song of Our Fathers, Our Mothers" ("B'ix rxin Kadta, rxin Kate' Bis"); "Songs of the Flowers and the Fruit" ("B'ix rxin Cotz'ej, Sk'ul"); 4. The Poetics of Tz'utujil Songs and Their Relationship to K'iche'an Literature The Poetics of the Popol VuhThe Poetics of Tz'utujil Song Texts; Parallelism; Meter; Onomatopoeia; Lists; Assonance and Alliteration; Composition of the Texts and the Infl uence of Musical Rhythm; 5. The Music of the "Songs of the Nawals"; Form and Style of the Songs; The "Recibos of Old Mam": The Vessel of Tz'utujil Culture; The "Songs of Mam"; "Song of the Young Girl Who Says Goodbye to Her Mother"; "Song of the Old Maid" or "Song of the Road"; "Song of the Fruit"; Historical Origins of the Tz'utujil Guitar; Tuning; Playing Style and Technique; Repertoire How the Songs Survived:The Process of Assimilation and TransmissionFinal Words; Audio Files of Recorded Examples; Notes; Glossary; Works Cited; Index Summary An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlán, 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 española, which survives in Santiago Atitlán as a five-string guitar Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Folk dance music -- Guatemala Tzutuhil Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Tzutuhil Indians -- Religion Tzutuhil Indians -- Music SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Folk dance music Manners and customs Tzutuhil Indians Tzutuhil Indians -- Religion Tzutuhil Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Tzutujil (Indiens) -- Musique. Tzutujil (Indiens) -- Religion. Tzutujil (Indiens) -- Rites et cérémonies. Folk (musique) -- Guatemala. SUBJECT Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala) -- Social life and customs Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala) -- Religious life and customs Subject Guatemala Guatemala -- Santiago Atitlán Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala) -- Moeurs et coutumes. Genre/Form Music Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477301104 1477301100 9781477301111 1477301119

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