| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Music in American life |
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Music in American life.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 practices and contemporary musical influences |
| Analysis |
Folk, Ethnic & World music |
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Indigenous peoples |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Music -- History and criticism
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Indian dance -- North America.
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MUSIC -- Ethnic.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Ethnomusicology.
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Indian dance.
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Indians of North America -- Music.
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North America.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Browner, Tara, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2019717362 |
| ISBN |
9780252090653 |
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0252090659 |
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1283043947 |
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9781283043946 |
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9786613043948 |
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661304394X |
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