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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788727403321

Titolo

Music of the first nations [[electronic resource] ] : tradition and innovation in native North America / / edited by Tara Browner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-04394-7

9786613043948

0-252-09065-9

Descrizione fisica

166 p. : ill., maps, music

Collana

Music in American life

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownerTara <1960->

Disciplina

781.62/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Music - History and criticism

Ethnomusicology - United States - History

Indian dance - North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.