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Early European accounts of New World societies are filled with details of music-making, but none of the music involved was written down in a way we can interpret. This book exploits these details to reconstruct the nature and ritual functions of singing among the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Tupinamba of lowland Brazil.Tomlinson, Gary is the author of 'Singing of the New World Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521873918 and ISBN 0521873916.
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