An edition of Music of the Warao of Venezuela (1996)

Music of the Warao of Venezuela

song people of the rain forest

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An edition of Music of the Warao of Venezuela (1996)

Music of the Warao of Venezuela

song people of the rain forest

Cultural tragedy often accompanies the death of biological species in the South American rain forests. As fragile as the ecosystem is, however, the culture of the Warao Native Americans (inhabitants of the lower Orinoco River delta in Venezuela) continues to thrive. In this lively blend of musicology, anthropology, and environmental awareness, Dale Olsen shows that music holds together much of their existence.

For the Warao, who live in a rain forest habitat that remains relatively undisturbed by outside influences, nearly all aspects of life include music; it offers diversion, stability, protection, and power. Olsen divides their musical genres into three categories: music for pleasure, such as dancing; music for utility, including lullabies; and music for theurgy - the largest group, which includes all songs pertaining to cosmology or calling upon supernatural forces.

These may include shamanistic songs for curing illnesses or for causing illness and death, as well as songs for love, dreaming, making rain, healing wounds, or for cutting down sacred trees to build large canoes.

Olsen provides musical and textual transcriptions of many songs, which are translated, explained, analyzed, and included on an enclosed compact disk. He presents detailed information about Warao musical instruments, relating them to mythology, describing them (with numerous photographs), and placing them in their circum-Caribbean context.

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Language
English
Pages
444

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Cover of: Music of the Warao of Venezuela
Music of the Warao of Venezuela: song people of the rain forest
1996, University Press of Florida
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-430) and index.
Includes sound disc of field recordings (72 min., 40 sec. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.).

Published in
Gainesville

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
781.62/98
Library of Congress
ML3575.V3 O47 1996, ML3575.V3O47 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiv, 444 p. :
Number of pages
444

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL809730M
Internet Archive
musicofwaraoofve00olse
ISBN 10
0813013909
LCCN
95046549
OCLC/WorldCat
33442766
Goodreads
438775

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