| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PART I. THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF FLATHEAD MUSIC; CHAPTER I. THE SOURCES OF MUSIC; Music and the Supernatural World ; Individual Composition; Borrowed Songs; Summary and Conclusions |
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CHAPTER II. IDEAS OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANSHIP Individual and Group Activity; Why People Make Music ; The Sounds of Music ; Humor and Music; Music as Property |
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The Ability to Sing Attitudes toward Singing ; The Problem of Song Texts; The Musician; Learning ; Criteria for a Good Musician. ; Verbalizations about Formal Structure |
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Cueing The Problem of a Flathead Aesthetic ; CHAPTER III. SOUND INSTRUMENTS ; Ownership of Instruments ; Hand and War Drums |
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Flageolets and Whistles Rasps, Rattles, and Bells ; CHAPTER IV. THE USES OF MUSIC ; Songs of Personal Power; Shamans' Songs; Love Songs; Sweathouse Songs; Songs of the Life Cycle; Songs of Birth and Childhood |
| Summary |
"All people, in no matter what culture, must be able to place their music firmly in the context of the totality of their beliefs, experiences, and activities, for without such ties, music cannot exist. This means that there must be a body of theory connected with any music system - not necessarily a theory of the structure of music sound, although that may be present as well, but rather a theory of what music is, what it does, and how it is coordinated with the total environment, both natural and cultural, in which human beings move. The Flathead Indians of Western Montana (just over 26,000 in number as of the 2000 census) inhabit a reservation consisting of 632,516 acres of land in the Jocko and Flathead Valleys and the Camas Prairie country, which lie roughly between Evaro and Kalispell, Montana. The reservation is bounded on the east by the Mission Range, on the west by the Cabinet National Forest, on the south by the Lolo National Forest, and on the north by an arbitrary line, approximately bisecting Flathead Lake about twenty-four miles south of Kalispell. The area is one of the richest agricultural regions in Montana, and fish and game are abundant. The Flathead are engaged in stocking, timbering, and various agricultural enterprises. For the Flathead, the most important single fact about music and its relationship to the total world is its origin in the supernatural sphere. All true and proper songs, particularly in the past, owe their origin to a variety of contacts experienced by humans with beings which, though a part of this world, are superhuman and the source of both individual and tribal powers and skills. Thus a sharp distinction is drawn by the Flathead between what they call "make-up" and all other songs. Merriam's pioneering work in the relationship of ethnography and musicology remains a primary source in this field in anthropology."--Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Salish Indians -- Music -- History and criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351311243 |
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1351311247 |
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