Spread and Steal: the timbira system and the maracá chants seen from a krahô village
This article presents as ethnographic material two narrative testimonies in which different krahô singers (Timbira/Jê) reflect on their trajectories and on their personal processes of learning chants in general and maracá chants in specific. Maracá chants are apan-Timbira musical and verbal genre, p...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2020
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/maloca/article/view/13487 |
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| Summary: | This article presents as ethnographic material two narrative testimonies in which different krahô singers (Timbira/Jê) reflect on their trajectories and on their personal processes of learning chants in general and maracá chants in specific. Maracá chants are apan-Timbira musical and verbal genre, performed daily in the village’s central plaza and also in ritual contexts. The analysis of this material will allow us to identify and describe some of the krahô conceptions about the modes of execution, transmission, circulation, and fruition of the maracá chants. As we will discuss, such conceptions are fundamental both for the understanding of the sociocosmological memory regime that is unique to this form ofknowledge and for the understanding of the place that singers occupy in the krahô socius and,more broadly, in the regional system formed by the Timbira people. |
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| ISSN: | 2675-3111 |
