Visions of Sound Musical Instruments of First Nation Communities in Northeastern America

Name: Visions of Sound Musical Instruments of First Nation Communities in Northeastern America
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ISBN: 9780226144757

ISBN-10: 0226144755

ISBN-13: 9780226144757

Edition: 1995

Authors: Beverley Diamond, M. Sam Cronk, Franziska von Rosen

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The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the musical instruments of native people in Northeastern North America, Visions of Sound focuses on interpretations by elders and consultants from Iroquois, Wabanati, Innuat, and Anishnabek communities. Beverley Diamond, M. Sam Cronk, and Franziska von Rosen present these instruments in a theoretically innovative setting organized around such abstract themes as complementarity, twinness, and relationship. As sources of metaphor--in both sound and image--instruments are interpreted within a framework that regards meaning as "emergent" and that challenges a number of previous ethnographic descriptions. Finally, the association between sound and…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations of Archival Collections



Cultural Knowledge: Searching at the Boundaries



Relationship, Complementarity, and "Twinness"



"Real"



Languages of Sound



Languages of Image, Design, and Structure



Motion, Cycles, and Renewal



All the Nations


Bibliography


Index