Seeger

Date: March 25, 2010

Traditional Music in Community Life: Aspects of Performance, Recordings,. and Preservation

Date: March 25, 2010

The Sound of Music: Suyá Song Structure and Experience.

Date: March 4, 2010

Singing Other Peoples' Songs: Indigenous songs are often considered. "public domain"-yet a mainstream musician can turn them into "individual property"

WHEN MY WIFE, JUDY, AND I were doing field research among the Suy Indians in Mato Grosso, Brazil, we all sang together a lot. Between 1970 and 1982 the Suy learned many of our songs - just as they had learned the songs of more than 10 "foreign" cultures before we appeared - and we sang theirs.

Subscribe to Seeger