Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
edited by Tara Browner contributions by Laurel Sercombe, Judith Vander, T. Christopher Aplin, Tara Browner, Paula Conlon, David E. Draper, Elaine Keillor, Lucy Lafferty, Franziska von Rosen and David W. Samuels
University of Illinois Press, 2009 eISBN: 978-0-252-09065-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-08700-4 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02221-0 Library of Congress Classification ML3557.M87 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 781.6297
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. Gathering scholarship on a realm of intense interest but little previous publication, this collection promises to revitalize the study of Native music in North America, an area of ethnomusicology that stands to benefit greatly from these scholars' cooperative, community-oriented methods.
Contributors are T. Christopher Aplin, Tara Browner, Paula Conlon, David E. Draper, Elaine Keillor, Lucy Lafferty, Franziska von Rosen, David Samuels, Laurel Sercombe, and Judith Vander.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Tara Browner is a professor of ethnomusicology and American Indian studies at UCLA and the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow.
REVIEWS
"Essential reading for ethnomusicologists, Native music scholars, and other readers who are interested in the musical journeying of people and repertoires across North America."--Great Plains Quarterly
"This anthology offers an exciting variety of scholarly studies of musical practices of First Peoples. This highly influential work undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, containing essays that will become widely cited."--Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
"A fascinating and innovative collection of case studies, including work by Native American scholars as well as articles co-authored by non-Native scholars and Native community members. This collection's special strength is the rich variety of methodological approaches and communities presented, some of which have been underrepresented in previous literature in American Indian ethnomusicology. This work will certainly appeal to scholars in ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, linguistics, Native American studies, and cultural studies."--Victoria Lindsay Levine, author of Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tara Browner
1. Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs
Paula Conlon
2. Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and
Land Songs
Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor
3. The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western
Washington
Coast Salish Myth Narratives
Laurel Sercombe
4. Drum, Songs, Vibrations: Conversations with a
Passamaquoddy
Traditional Singer
Franziska von Rosen
5. Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the
Performance of Native Choctaw Music
David E. Draper
6. "This is Our Dance": The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill
Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache
T. Chris Aplin
7. The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs
Judith Vander
8. An Acoustic Geography of Intertribal Pow-wow Songs
Tara Browner
9. Singing Indian Country
David Samuels
List of Contributors
Index
Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
edited by Tara Browner contributions by Laurel Sercombe, Judith Vander, T. Christopher Aplin, Tara Browner, Paula Conlon, David E. Draper, Elaine Keillor, Lucy Lafferty, Franziska von Rosen and David W. Samuels
University of Illinois Press, 2009 eISBN: 978-0-252-09065-3 Paper: 978-0-252-08700-4 Cloth: 978-0-252-02221-0
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. Gathering scholarship on a realm of intense interest but little previous publication, this collection promises to revitalize the study of Native music in North America, an area of ethnomusicology that stands to benefit greatly from these scholars' cooperative, community-oriented methods.
Contributors are T. Christopher Aplin, Tara Browner, Paula Conlon, David E. Draper, Elaine Keillor, Lucy Lafferty, Franziska von Rosen, David Samuels, Laurel Sercombe, and Judith Vander.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Tara Browner is a professor of ethnomusicology and American Indian studies at UCLA and the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow.
REVIEWS
"Essential reading for ethnomusicologists, Native music scholars, and other readers who are interested in the musical journeying of people and repertoires across North America."--Great Plains Quarterly
"This anthology offers an exciting variety of scholarly studies of musical practices of First Peoples. This highly influential work undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, containing essays that will become widely cited."--Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
"A fascinating and innovative collection of case studies, including work by Native American scholars as well as articles co-authored by non-Native scholars and Native community members. This collection's special strength is the rich variety of methodological approaches and communities presented, some of which have been underrepresented in previous literature in American Indian ethnomusicology. This work will certainly appeal to scholars in ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, linguistics, Native American studies, and cultural studies."--Victoria Lindsay Levine, author of Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tara Browner
1. Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs
Paula Conlon
2. Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and
Land Songs
Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor
3. The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western
Washington
Coast Salish Myth Narratives
Laurel Sercombe
4. Drum, Songs, Vibrations: Conversations with a
Passamaquoddy
Traditional Singer
Franziska von Rosen
5. Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the
Performance of Native Choctaw Music
David E. Draper
6. "This is Our Dance": The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill
Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache
T. Chris Aplin
7. The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs
Judith Vander
8. An Acoustic Geography of Intertribal Pow-wow Songs
Tara Browner
9. Singing Indian Country
David Samuels
List of Contributors
Index
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC