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Show BARBARA TEDLOCK with a sudden dip ending in a "sharp pause," is illustrated by the simultaneous dip of the dancers' yucca whips from their waists to the ground. Rhythm is most commonly marked by the stomping of the right foot on the main accents, causing the leg rattle to sound. When a singer performs such a song out of context, without dancing and without leg rattle, he finds it necessary to indicate the rhythm with foot-tapping. If the dancers make a bad mistake in a song-for instance, if they miss an entire section-then the clowns suddenly all begin yelling at once, 7uc7oyana -we halowaka, 'wake up you made a mistake', or yam penan 7ayyu7hatiyahk7ena, 'listen to your words', or 'speak correctly,' or 'slow down, grandsons'. Finally, if the song is really ruined, they tell them to stop and begin again at the beginning. The audience members never call out any criticisms to the dancers; they merely start leaving the dance and do not call for any repeats. Later, when they are talking together or listening to their tapes, they will criticize both the songs themselves and their performance. However, very few songs or performances are given either extreme praise or severe criticism. From my sample of 116 recorded songs, only 4 were considered co?ya, 'beautiful' by the Zunis I talked with, 30 more were k7oksi, 'good', and most of the rest were alliye, 'all right'. Four songs were kwa7k7oksamme, 'not good'. In one the words and melody were kwa7hi •nina7ma, 'not matched'; two were his 7emma penappa, 'very wordy' (the meaningful text in [aa'] and [bb'J was too long relative to the vocables in [cc']); and the fourth was po£akk7akka, 'ruined' because the dancers skipped the entire second "coming out" section and then had to begin the whole song over again. During the performance, however, both audience members and clowns do express their appreciation of songs. If the clowns like a song they yell out 7ele-te\, 'that's right!' or nana-kve ton 7ele7a-wan, 'grandsons, you're doing well'. Sometimes the last "strong" part in the last "coming out" section "really gets to the Mudheads. They cither start dancing with them or 7ik7okveyen [giving a deer cry] or something like that. They get excited in the last part." The clowns are usually the first ones to recognize a good song and will call for an encore right on the spot. If the audience likes a song someone will call out, immediately after it is over, 7uhsite, 'this one again', seya, 'again', or 7atnate, 32 |
