Native American Music in Eastern North America
Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Includes CD
ISBN13: 9780195301045ISBN10: 0195301048
Mixed Media, 208 pages
Oct 2007,
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208 pages;
40 illus.;
5-1/2 x 8-1/4;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-530104-5ISBN10: 0-19-530104-8
This volume looks at how performance traditions of Native North Americans have been influenced by traditional social values and cultural histories, as well as by encounters with other indigenous groups and newcomers from Europe and Africa.
Table of Contents
1. Traditions of Knowledge: Indigenous Knowledge and the Western Music School
Names Matter!
Writing this Book as an Encounter
Traditional Ways of Knowing
Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
The Great Texts of Native American Communities as TIK?
Language, Oral Transmission, and Worldview
Place and Attention to the Environment
The Inseparability of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Oral Transmission, and Experience
Relationality
What Ethnomusicology Brings to the Study
2. Music and Historical Encounter: Inuit Communities
Traditional Genres of Song
Inuit Musical as Historical Record and Judicial System
Inuit Music as Play
New Throat Singing Encounters: Local-Global Tensions
3. Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian
Nations
Retaining Pre-Contact Forms of Traditional Knowledge
Indigenous Uses of New Performance Traditions
Contemporary Wabenaki Social Dance and Song Traditions
Introducing the Haudenosaunee
4. Music and Historical Encounter: Haudenosaunee Music Culture with Occasional References to Cherokee Traditions
Attending a Sing
Traditional Knowledge and Modernity: Contemporary Adaptations of Social Dance Songs
Haudenosaunee Singers and Social Dance Songs
Iroquois Hymns
Traditional Knowledge and Encounter
5. Contemporary Inter-Tribal and Cross-Cultural Native American Music
Powwows in Eastern North America
Powwow Fundamentals
The Commodification of Powwow Music
Contemporary Popular Music and Theatre
Contemporary Native American Music and Identity
Available Resources
Companion Resources
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