The Suyá music was a particular type of recreation. Singing created musical relationship between silence and sound, low and serious and high-pitched, between fast and slow, between unison and solo between crying and wailing songs, between short and silly songs and the long and serious songs of adults. Singing also established relationships between movements: between sitting and standing, walking clockwise and counterclockwise, approach the residential houses or walking away from the houses, jump and stop. The music established relationships between groups: men and women, between different tribes, and between members of the tribe. Thus, space, time, body and social identity were all set, and were defined by the vocal art (Seeger, 1987, p.
The Suyá music was a particular type of recreation. Singing created musical relationship between silence and sound, low and serious and high-pitched, between fast and slow, between unison and solo between crying and wailing songs, between short and silly songs and the long and serious songs of adults. Singing also established relationships between movements: between sitting and standing, walking clockwise and counterclockwise, approach the residential houses or walking away from the houses, jump and stop. The music established relationships between groups: men and women, between different tribes, and between members of the tribe. Thus, space, time, body and social identity were all set, and were defined by the vocal art (Seeger, 1987, p.