Author: Charles Hofmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian dance
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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"The thought, religion and culture of Indian nations across the land as revealed through their music, dances, song-poetry and ceremonies"--Jacket subtitle.
Author: Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826341709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Speak Like Singing honors talk-song visions for all relatives and seeks to plumb, if not to reconcile, Native and American poetics, tribal chorus, and solitary vision.
Author: Alana Robson
Publisher: Banana Books
ISBN: 9781800490680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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"He is forever and ever here in spirit" An adventure. A magic necklace. Brotherhood. Six-year-old Forrest feels lost now that his big brother Kitchi is no longer here. He misses him every day and clings onto a necklace that reminds him of Kitchi. One day, the necklace comes to life. Forrest is taken on a magical adventure, where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a beautiful, yet mysterious fox, who soon becomes his best friend. www.kitchithespiritfox.com
Author: Jeff Berglund
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816509441
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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"This book is an interdisciplinary discussion of popular music performed and created by American Indian musicians, providing an important window into history, politics, and tribal communities as it simultaneously complements literary, historiographic, anthropological, and sociological discussions of Native culture"--Provided by publisher.
Author: William J. Lavonis
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Lavonia (Director of Opera at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) spent the 2000-2001 academic year on sabbatical in Santa Fe, New Mexico researching Native American singing and song. The purpose of his study is to foster an appreciation for the singing and songs, and gather in one place some of the pedagogical mysteries of the vocal art of Native Americans. He focuses on those vocal practices that have been referred to by ethnomusicologists in previously published sources, and on the pueblo villages near Santa Fe. The chapters cover his experiences with San Juan Pueblo singer Peter Garcia, Native voice pedagogy, and the composition and performance of Native songs and their singers. A final chapter lists Western and Native composers and their vocal works based on Native American melodies. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Author: Gina Capaldi
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1467738131
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her home at age eight to go to a boarding school in Indiana. But she soon found herself caught between two worlds—white and Native American. At school she missed her mother and her traditional life, but Zitkala-Ša found joy in music classes. "My wounded spirit soared like a bird as I practiced the piano and violin," she wrote. Her talent grew, and when she graduated, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. Zitkala-Ša found she could also "sing" to help her people by writing stories and giving speeches. As an adult, she worked as an activist for Native American rights, seeking to build a bridge between cultures. The coauthors tell Zitkala-Ša’s life by weaving together pieces from her own stories. The artist's acrylic illustrations and collages of photos and primary source documents round out the vivid portrait of Zitkala-Ša, a frightened child whose spirit "would rise again, stronger and wiser for the wounds it had suffered."
Author: Ruth Murray Underhill
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520367464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.
Author: Linda Goodman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134512
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Ever since she was a small child, Helma Swan, the daughter of a Northwest Coast chief, loved and learned the music of her people. As an adult she began to sing, even though traditionally Makah singers had been men. How did such a situation develop? In her own words, Helma Swan tells the unusual story of her life, her music, and how she became a singer. An excellent storyteller, she speaks of both musical and non-musical activities and events. In addition to discussing song ownership and other Makah musical concepts, she describes songs, dances, and potlatch ceremonies; proper care of masks and costumes; and changing views of Native music education. More generally, she speaks of cultural changes that have had profound effects on contemporary Makah life. Drawing on more than twenty years of research and oral history interviews, Linda J. Goodman in Singing the Songs of My Ancestors presents a somewhat different point of view-that of the anthropologist/ethnomusicologist interested in Makah culture and history as well as the changing musical and ceremonial roles of Makah men and women. Her information provides a context for Helma Swan’s stories and songs. Taken together, the two perspectives allow the reader to embark on a vivid and absorbing journey through Makah life, music, and ceremony spanning most of the twentieth century. Studies of American Indian women musicians are rare; this is the first to focus on a Northwest Coast woman who is an outstanding singer and storyteller as well as a conservator of her tribe’s cultural traditions.
Author: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689822839
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Full-color photographs illustrate a collection of poems written by young Native Americans, inspired by or matched with artifacts and people from the National Museum of the American Indian.
