Title: Native American song at the frontiers of early modern music /
Authors: Bloechl, Olivia Ashley.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Indians of North America Music History and criticism.; Indians of North America Music History and criticism.; Indians of North America Music History and criticism.; Indians in music History and criticism.; Indians in music History and criticism.; Indians in music History and criticism.; Music United States History and criticism.; Music United States History and criticism.; Music United States History and criticism.; Music Social aspects United States
Contents: On colonial difference and musical frontiers: directions for a postcolonial musicology -- pt. 1. Transatlantic savagery. Protestant imperialism and the metaphysics of New World song -- The voice of possession -- The voice of prophecy -- pt. 2. Staging the Indian. Musicking Indians in the Stuart court masque -- Savage Lully -- Rameau's Les sauvages and the aporia of musical nature -- Conclusion: opera, elsewhere.