Music of the first nations : tradition and innovation in native North American / edited by Tara Browner

Published:: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Physical Description:: 166 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Browner, Tara, 1960-

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Series:

Music in American life

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.

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ISBN:

9780252022210 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252022211 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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