Background
Seeger, Anthony was born on May 29, 1945 in New York City. Son of John Jay and Eleanor (Paur) Seeger.
(Winner of the American Musical Society's Kinkeldey Award ...)
Winner of the American Musical Society's Kinkeldey Award Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suy Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suy Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suy--and by extension for other groups-- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in the initiation ceremony. Based on over twenty-four months of field research and years of musical exchange, Seeger analyzes the different verbal arts and then focuses on details of musical performance. He reveals how Suy singing creates euphoria out of silence, a village community out of a collection of houses, a socialized adult out of a boy, and contributes to the formation of ideas about time, space, and social identity. This new paperback edition features an indispensable CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suy in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers.
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Seeger, Anthony was born on May 29, 1945 in New York City. Son of John Jay and Eleanor (Paur) Seeger.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1974.
Professor anthropology, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1975-1982;
professor anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982-1988;
director archives of traditional music, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1982-1988;
curator, director, Folkways Records & Archives, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, since 1988. Consultant various organizations and foundations, since 1976. President Comissao Pro-Indio, Rio de Janeiro, 1978-1980.
Chairman advisory board Archives and Research Center in Ethnomusicology, New Delhi, India, since 1994.
(Winner of the American Musical Society's Kinkeldey Award ...)
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Member International Council for Traditional Music (executive board since 1988), Society for Ethnomusicology (executive board 1986-1988, president 1991-1993), American Folklore Society, American Anthropological Association, Brazilian Anthropological Association.
Married Judith Austin, June 10, 1967. Children: Elizabeth, Hileia.