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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252090653 9781283043946 9786613043948 661304394X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019717362 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indians of North America--Music--History and criticism.<br/>Indian dance--North America.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Folk, Ethnic & World music. Indigenous peoples. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML3557  / .M875 2009