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Music of the First Nations

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This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and non-Native scholars who provide erudite and illuminating perspectives on aboriginal culture, incorporating both traditional practices and contemporary musical influences. Gathering scholarship on a realm of intense interest but little previous publication, this collection promises to revitalize the study of Native music in North America, an area of ethnomusicology that stands to benefit greatly from these scholars' cooperative, community-oriented methods.

Contributors are T. Christopher Aplin, Tara Browner, Paula Conlon, David E. Draper, Elaine Keillor, Lucy Lafferty, Franziska von Rosen, David Samuels, Laurel Sercombe, and Judith Vander.

| Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Tara Browner 1. Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs Paula Conlon 2. Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and Land Songs Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor 3. The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives Laurel Sercombe 4. Drum, Songs, Vibrations: Conversations with a Passamaquoddy Traditional Singer Franziska von Rosen 5. Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the Performance of Native Choctaw Music David E. Draper 6. "This is Our Dance": The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache T. Chris Aplin 7. The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs Judith Vander 8. An Acoustic Geography of Intertribal Pow-wow Songs Tara Browner 9. Singing Indian Country David Samuels List of Contributors Index | "Essential reading for ethnomusicologists, Native music scholars, and other readers who are interested in the musical journeying of people and repertoires across North America."—Great Plains Quarterly
"Tara Browner's edited volume on American Indian music, originally published in 2009 and issued as a paperback in 2022, provides context and analysis that sheds light on key areas where music intersects prominently with Indian cultures: dance, identity, mythology, poetics, and spiritual power." —Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
"This anthology offers an exciting variety of scholarly studies of musical practices of First Peoples. This highly influential work undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, containing essays that will become widely cited."—Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
|Tara Browner is a professor of ethnomusicology and American Indian studies at UCLA and the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow.

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This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and non-Native scholars who provide erudite and illuminating perspectives on aboriginal culture, incorporating both traditional practices and contemporary musical influences. Gathering scholarship on a realm of intense interest but little previous publication, this collection promises to revitalize the study of Native music in North America, an area of ethnomusicology that stands to benefit greatly from these scholars' cooperative, community-oriented methods.

Contributors are T. Christopher Aplin, Tara Browner, Paula Conlon, David E. Draper, Elaine Keillor, Lucy Lafferty, Franziska von Rosen, David Samuels, Laurel Sercombe, and Judith Vander.

| Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Tara Browner 1. Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs Paula Conlon 2. Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and Land Songs Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor 3. The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives Laurel Sercombe 4. Drum, Songs, Vibrations: Conversations with a Passamaquoddy Traditional Singer Franziska von Rosen 5. Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the Performance of Native Choctaw Music David E. Draper 6. "This is Our Dance": The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache T. Chris Aplin 7. The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs Judith Vander 8. An Acoustic Geography of Intertribal Pow-wow Songs Tara Browner 9. Singing Indian Country David Samuels List of Contributors Index | "Essential reading for ethnomusicologists, Native music scholars, and other readers who are interested in the musical journeying of people and repertoires across North America."—Great Plains Quarterly
"Tara Browner's edited volume on American Indian music, originally published in 2009 and issued as a paperback in 2022, provides context and analysis that sheds light on key areas where music intersects prominently with Indian cultures: dance, identity, mythology, poetics, and spiritual power." —Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
"This anthology offers an exciting variety of scholarly studies of musical practices of First Peoples. This highly influential work undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, containing essays that will become widely cited."—Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
|Tara Browner is a professor of ethnomusicology and American Indian studies at UCLA and the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow.

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