Music of the first nations : tradition and innovation in native North America /

This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and non-Native scholars who provide erudite and illuminating perspectives on aboriginal culture, incorporating both traditional practic...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Andre forfattere: Browner, Tara, 1960-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Serier:Music in American life.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Iglulik Inuit drum-dance songs / Paula Conlon
  • Musical expressions of the Dene : dogrib love and land songs / Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor
  • The story of dirty face : power and song in western Washington Coast Salish myth narratives / Laurel Sercombe
  • Drum, songs, vibrations : conversations with a Passamaquoddy traditional singer / Franziska von Rosen (introduction by Tara Browner)
  • Identity, retention, and survival : contexts for the performance of native Choctaw music / David E. Draper
  • "This is our dance" : the fire dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache / T. Christopher Aplin
  • The creative power and style of ghost dance songs / Judith Vander
  • An acoustic geography of intertribal pow-wow songs / Tara Browner
  • Singing Indian country / David W. Samuels.