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Native American Music in Eastern North America Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

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ISBN-10: 0195301048

ISBN-13: 9780195301045

Edition: 2008

Authors: Beverley Diamond

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Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes…    
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Book details

List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.39" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
CD Track List
Music Selections Available on iMix
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
Music and Historical Encounter: Inuit Communities
Traditional Genres of Song
Inuit Music as Historical Record and Judicial System
Inuit Music as Play
New Throat Singing Encounters: Local-Global Tensions
Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian Nations
Retaining Precontact Forms of Traditional Knowledge
Spaces Beyond Colonial Control
Rituals of Renewal
Narratives and Performances that Relate to Encounter
Indigenous Uses of New Performance Traditions
Christian Hymns
Secular Repertoires and Contexts
Contemporary Wabenaki Social Dance and Song Traditions
Wabenaki Cultural Revitalization
Music and Historical Encounter: Haudenosaunee Music Culture with Occasional References to Cherokee Traditions
Attending a "Sing"
Introducing the Haudenosaunee
Haudenosaunee Singers and Social Dance Songs
Traditional Knowledge and Modernity: Contemporary Adaptations of Social Dance Songs
Iroquois Hymns
Traditional Knowledge and Encounter
Contemporary Intertribal and Cross-Cultural Native American Music
Powwows in Eastern North America
Powwow Fundamentals
The Commodification of Powwow Music
Contemporary Popular Music and Theater
Lee Cremo - "The Mystery Stepdancer"
Forever - "My Way"
Trurez Crew - "Why We Rhyme"
Charlie Panigoniak - "Sweet Tobacco"
Kashtin - "Akua Tuta"
Murray Porter - "1492 Who Found Who"
Ulali - "Museum Cases"
Joy Harjo - "A Post Colonial Tale"
BONES: An Aboriginal Dance Opera
Contemporary Native American Music and Identity
Epilogue
Glossary
References
Resources
Index