Shoshone ghost dance religion
Subtitle: poetry songs and Great Basin context
By: Judith Vander.
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
Subjects: Shoshoni Indians -- Music -- History and criticism.; Shoshoni Indians -- Music.; Ghost dance.; Shoshoni Indians -- Religion.
Notes: Includes music with Shoshone text.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [595]-605) and index.
Table of contents: value: Great Basin context : power in nature, shamanism, and the round dance; value: Naraya songs related to the 1890 ghost dance movement; value: Water; value: Fog, mountains, and rocks; value: Animals : ground people, sky people, and water people; value: Plants; value: Sun, stars, and night; value: Textual analysis; value: Musical analysis; value: Song text comparisons : naraya with Great Basin and Plains ghost dance.