essay
Music, modernization, and westernization among the Macuma Shuar
cultural transformations and ethnicity in modern ecuador • Urbana • Published In 1981 • Pages: 731-748
By: Belzner, William.
Abstract
This is a study of Shuar music and culture change. Belzner discusses traditional Shuar music and instruments. He then examines the influence of western popular and religious music on Shuar music form and practice. Belzner finds that the Shuar have been able to keep the two traditions separate, i.e., no westernization and syncretism has occurred. For the Shuar, music is a means to gain power. Where western music worked to undermine Shuar independence and self-sufficiency, it was rejected and used only superficially in context of Shuar-White interactions.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field Date
- 1978
- Coverage Date
- 1978
- Coverage Place
- Macuma, Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador
- Notes
- William Belzner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 747-748)
- LCCN
- 81004402
- LCSH
- Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians