A study into indigenous music-making in New World societies, including the Aztecs and the Incas.

Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction: Raised voices; 1. Unlearning the Aztec Cantares; 2. Metonymy, writing, and the matter of Mexica song; 3. Cantares mexicanos; 4. Musicoanthropophagy: the songs of cannibals; 5. Inca singing at Cuzco; 6. Fear of singing.