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

Music of the first nations : tradition and innovation in native North America / edited by Tara Browner. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource. - Music in American life .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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.



9780252090653 9781283043946 9786613043948 661304394X

2019717362


Indians of North America--Music--History and criticism.
Indian dance--North America.

Folk, Ethnic & World music. Indigenous peoples.


Electronic Books.

ML3557 / .M875 2009