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Tayil as Category and Communication among the Argentine Mapuche: A Methodological Suggestion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Carol E. Robertson-DeCarbo
Carol E. Robertson-DeCarbo*
Affiliation:
Center for Studies in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, New York, USA
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The points raised herein address the methodologies and assumptions which undergird the theory-building process in ethnomusicology and ethnology. Hypotheses and conclusions are derived from field research among the Mapuche-speaking peoples of Andean Argentina (1971-72) and have been further tested in cooperative research with Edward A. DeCarbo, Jr., among Kasem-speakers in Northern Ghana. The discussion concerns the description and explanation of tayil, a form of musical communication among the Argentine Mapuche, as well as the utility of the Western musicological category “music” as a point of entry to the explication of a social system.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 8 , 1976 , pp. 35 - 52
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Copyright © 1977 By the International Folk Music Council 

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