Sending their voices
Subtitle: essays on Lakota musicology
By: R.D. Theisz.
Publisher: Lakota Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Kendall Park, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Teton Indians -- Music -- History and criticism; Songs, Lakota -- South Dakota -- Texts; Teton dance
Genres: Texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Cover title.
Song texts in Lakota with English translations.
The essays originally appeared in: Wassaja, 1977; Great Plains quarterly, l987; Kansas quarterly, 1981; Indians and Europe, 1987; and The European review of native American studies, 1988.
Table of contents: title: Neglecting the conspicuous : the teaching of American Indian music and dance; title: Acclamations and accolades : honor songs in Lakota society today; title: The bad speakers and the long braids : references to foreign enemies in Lakota song texts; title: Multifaceted Double Woman : legend, song, dream, and meaning; title: Song texts and their performers : the centerpiece of contemporary Lakota identity formulation.