Indian Music of the Upper Amazon (1954) CD

"This item is part of the Folkways (Cook, or Paredon, or Monitor) archives.The original liner notes from the LP are included."

"The area designated by the vague term ‘Upper Amazon’ is actually incredibly extensive. The great Amazon system drains three million square miles of territory, or approximately half the South American continent. Some of its most remote tributaries, fed by melting glaciers in the Andes, originate less than eighty miles from the Pacific coast. Others extend upward into the highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This vast area, flanking the eastern slopes of the Andean chain, embraces a bewildering number of Indian tribes, an almost unbelievable number of unrelated languages, and a series of tropical forest cultures that range from exceedingly simple and primitive to highly sophisticated and complex..."

Harry Tschopik, Jr.

101     Fiesta Music      Drum and male voices      2:16                                            
102     Fiesta Drum Music     Two drums, pan-pipes, male and female voices     1:45                   
103     Social Dance Music     Flute solo     1:57                                                     
104     Traveling Music     Bass drum, tap drum and flute     1:32                                   
105     Girl's Puberty Rite     n/a     2:16                                                         
106     Public Work Music     Drum, flute, shouts, calls and whistles     2:49                       
107     Social Dance Music     Three drummers     1:22                                                 
108     Work Song     Solo male voice     1:22                                                       
109     Welcoming Drum Music     Solo drum     1:06                                                   
110     War Song     Solo male voice     2:27                                                         
111     Dance for Adolescent Girl     Drum, blowing tubes, bells, shouts and laughter     1:43       
112     Lullaby     n/a     1:32                                                                     
201     War Music     Two drums, pan-pipes, male and female voices     1:50                           
202     Drinking Music     Drum and female voices     1:14                                             
203     Fiesta Dance Music     Solo on pan-pipes of thirteen tubes     1:08                           
204     Fiesta Dance Music     Solo on pan-pipes of five tubes     1:20                               
205     Game Lure Whistle     Game lure whistle     0:45                                             
206     Social Dance Music     Bass and Trap drum performers with flute     2:20                       
207     Fiesta Drum Music     n/a     1:13                                                           
208     Social Dance Music     n/a     2:10                                                           
209     Social Dance Music     n/a     1:12                                                           
210     Fiesta Music     Drum, male and female voices     2:17                                         
211     Public Work Music     Two drummers     1:23