Music of the first nations
Subtitle: tradition and innovation in native North American music
By: edited by Tara Browner.
Contributors: Browner, Tara, 1960-
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780252022210
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Music -- History and criticism; Ethnomusicology -- United States -- History; Indian dance -- North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Iglulik Inuit drum-dance songs / Paula Conlon; title: Musical expressions of the Dene : dogrib love and land songs / Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor; title: The story of dirty face : power and song in western Washington Coast Salish myth narratives / Laurel Sercombe; title: Drum, songs, vibrations : conversations with a Passamaquoddy traditional singer / Franziska Von Rosen; title: Identity, retention, and survival : contexts for the performance of native Choctaw music / David E. Draper; title: "This is our dance" : the fire dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache / T. Chris Aplin; title: The creative power and style of ghost dance songs / Judith Vander; title: An acoustic geography of intertribal pow-wow songs / Tara Browner; title: Singing Indian country / David Samuels.