Author: Bessie Evans
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps Native American groups have used to express ideas — from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourrée.
Author: Bessie Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258835002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Author: Bryan Burton
Publisher: Danbury, CT : World Music Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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"A dynamic collection of twenty-four social songs and dances, flute songs and guided listening experiences, as well as instructions for making present day instruments. Representing the music of the Pueblo, Lakota, Kiowa, Nanticoke, Hidatsa, Haliwa-Saponi, Seneca and other peoples, [the book] includes in-depth cultural and historical background"--Back cover.
Author: Ann M. Axtmann
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813048648
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Colloquially the term “powwow” refers to a meeting where important matters will be discussed. However, at the thousands of Native American intertribal dances that occur every year throughout the United States and Canada, a powwow means something else altogether. Sometimes lasting up to a week, these social gatherings are a sacred tradition central to Native American spirituality. Attendees dance, drum, sing, eat, re-establish family ties, and make new friends. In this compelling interdisciplinary work, Ann Axtmann examines powwows as practiced primarily along the Atlantic coastline, from New Jersey to New England. She offers an introduction to the many complexities of the tradition and explores the history of powwow performance, the variety of their setups, the dances themselves, and the phenomenon of “playing Indian.” Ultimately, Axtmann seeks to understand how the dancers express and embody power through their moving bodies and what the dances signify for the communities in which they are performed.
Author: John L. Squires
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913439
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Author: Charlotte Heth
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, with Starwood Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Indian dance
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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This premier publication of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian documents Native American dance with stunning photographs and essays by noted contributors.
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Publisher: Cherokee Publications
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Cherokee ceremonial dances and costumes are described, explained, and illustrated in full color in this beautiful how-to-do book. With a practical and usable approach using many illustrations and easy-to-follow sketches.
Author: Denise Lajimodiere
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681342078
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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An Ojibwe girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle, as she prepares for her first powwow.
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian dance
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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