Abstract:This almost forgotten book -defended originally as a doctoral dissertation in Musical Folklore at the then National Music School of the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro -is the foundation text for modern studies of the musical systems of Amerindian societies in Brazil. Although, as with any text, it paying its due to its time -through a diffuse evolutionism and ethnocentrism -, it reports on the significant literature until then produced with mastery, elegance and creativity, making advances on important… Show more
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