The Singing of the New World : Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact

List of illustrations viii Introduction: Raised voices 1(8) Unlearning the Aztec cantares 9(19) Metonymy, writing, and the matter of Mexica song 28(22) Cantares mexicanos 50(43) Musicoanthropophagy: The songs of cannibals 93(31) Inca singing at Cuzco 124(44) Fear of singing 168(34) Appendix 202(2) Works cited 204(9) Index 213