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NEW EXPANDED EDITION

Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life. ... Read more

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This nicely designed and illustrated book deals with the playing and care of one of the most evocative and expressive instruments in the world- the Native American flute. This volume will delight the novice or advanced player alike with both fundamental instruction and a significant number of transcriptions from R. Carlos Nakai's various recordings. This unique book includes a fingering chart, information in performance technique, style, rhythm conventions, ornaments, and history - plus an analysis of Mr. Nakai's role in contemporary Native American culture. All exercises, solos, and duets (with Boehm flute and E flat alto sax) are written in standard notation. A comprehensive discography and probing essay on "The Question of Authenticity" close this outstanding book. ... Read more

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Crow Flies - Soaring Falcon - Music on the Wings of a Falcon
Carlos Nakai is a gifted author who shares his knowledge in a form of cultural sharing. An educator and afficionado of Native American flute gives readers the ultimate treat - an excellent, easy to follow instructional guide for learning to play this instrument.Readers learn about how to tune, finger notes and develop performance styles as well as reading music in note form and tabluature.A section on how to care for the Native American flute is also included.His writing is as clear and direct as flies the crow.The songs, their titles and arrangements are like a soaring falcon - natural, free and beautiful.He reaches his readers as well as his musical audience.

To make a good thing even better still, Nakai includes transcriptions of his own musical creations.He follows this up with his part in Native culture and the history of this incredible instrument.

Authoritative Text on Native American Flute
R. Carlos Nakai is probably the most famous and accomplished of the Native American flute players.This book is for serious players interested in investigating the subtleties of the art and for those interested in learning more about Nakai's contribution to it.Amateurs like myself will probably be lost after the first few pages.

great introduction
if you have a little musical background, this book will get you going in the right direction with your native flute.when i first started playing my cedar flute, everything sounded off-key.after reading carlos nakai's introduction and learning to play his tunes from the scores in the book, i understood the intervals of the native flute and which notes sound good in what patterns.Soon i was able not only to play nakai's beautiful songs but also to improvise on my own.being able to read music is a big help but if you have that skill, this book will give you hours of fun and learning.

Not for Beginning Players
For anyone interested in a generic understanding of the Native American FLute they may find it here.However for those who would like to learn to play and have no prior musical knowledge they will find it a discouraging study...difficult to understand without first mastering musical theory.The most valuable parts of "The Art of The Native American FLute" are the musical transcriptions of Carlos Nakai's songs written in flute tablature. They are though beneficial only for the advanced player that can read.

John Vames, Author,
"The Native American FLute: Understanding the Gift"

Carlos Nakai flute book
I thought Native American flute music was from the heart, this book teaches writen music and memorizing notes. it was disapointing to me because thats not what i want to do. But for someone you does its a very good book. ... Read more

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Tells the story of ballerina Maria Tallchief, focusing on her Native American background and her rise to fame with the New York City Ballet. ... Read more

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This book provides an introduction Native American religious traditions, placing them within their historical, social, and political contexts.   The book focuses on three diverse indigenous traditions: the Lakota of the Northern Plains, the Diné (Navajo) of the Southwest, and Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest.   This book highlights their distinct oral traditions, ceremonial practices, the impact of colonialism on Native religious life, and the ways in which indigenous communities of North America have responded, and continue to respond, to colonialism and Euroamerican cultural hegemony.    For people interested in the study of Native American Religious Traditions.

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The words of Thomas Yellowtail, a revered Sun Dance chief of the Crow Indian tribe, are brought to life by the internationally known American Indian actor, Gordon Tootoosis. The book is illustrated with over 100 previously unpublished color and sepia photographs from as early as 1903 and traditional American Indian motifs. Also included are interviews with prominent Indian leaders, advice to American Indian youth, and special features on traditional Indian spirituality. Native Spirit is a stunning feast of rare visual images from Crow and Shoshone religious life. ... Read more

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Interesting DVD
I also was surprised at how they filmed the Sundance ceremony itself.My understanding is that it is not done.However the dvd had good information and was very interesting.Packaging was cruddy however the case came broken into little parts.

Buy it!
If you like to compare religion, like Sufism, Gnosis, Vedanta, Buddhism, etc... you will be surprise how a tradition that has no books written belongs to the same center.
A Masterpiece that deliver a bit of the AmericanIndian wisdom from the old times to the new times. Thanks to the Tom Yellow Tail inspiration and the tremendous effort of the producers.
But if I had something to say, I'd like to know if they kill animals to use in their rituals. The DVD just show them praying before cut a tree for the Sun Dance, but nothing about how the buffalo's head and eagle bones whistles comes into the Sun Dance. So, the DVD show just positive aspects of the American Indians.
I miss the philosophical talks of the elders (the more esoteric aspects of them), normally present in the Black Elk books and the great chiefs talks.
This DVD is more historical but equally important.
The DVD delivered on time, good quality and nice price for this priceless product.

Native Spirit and the Sundance WAy
I was surprised regarding the filming of the Sundance.2 Discs one history oriented. Did enjoy it lots of info good teaching tool. A gift..

Educational Entertainment
This movie captures the beauty of Thomas YellowTail & the sacredness of ritual, primarily the sweat lodge & Sundance. This man has saintly qualities. The film is an excellent resource for educational purposes in schools & beyond. Those featured in the film are the "real deal". It is rare to witness such an authentic representation of Native American ritual. Even rarer to find this in a well put together package for educational & informative purposes. YellowTail does offer native prayers & a very short understanding of basic words in his native tongue. Beautiful.

You need this book!
This is a wonderful book.The photographs are incredible and the writing is informative, not at all what you might have been taught.I have a new appreciation for the Sun Dance.Get the accompanying DVD as well and buy one for a friend! ... Read more

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Foreword by Frank Ettawageshik.
Illustrations, notes, references, index.

This 'rediscovered' book provides new insights into Native American music and culture: A half-century ago, three writers all intimately familiar with the Native American culture of their time and locale collaborated to produce a 450-page typescript of a study entitled 'Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians,' together with sound recordings and photographs. Their 1959 work offered a detailed view of the life of Ojibwe and Odawa music, dance, myth, and ceremony at mid-century. Now framed by a substantive editor's introduction, and published for the first time in book form, this material offers a unique glimpse into a significant and largely overlooked era in the history of North American ethnology and ethnomusicology.

THE ART OF TRADITION documents the complexity of Native life and culture at a critical juncture in Native American history, where the rekindling of pride in Native cultures characteristic of the later twentieth century met the generation of elders who spent their early years speaking Native tongues but who came of age in boarding schools and amid strong pressures of assimilation. Because this period was deemed by most ethnographers of the time to be one of 'acculturation', marking the end of traditional Native cultures, the authors' appreciation for the integrity of mid-century Native culture stands out markedly from other scholarship of the day. The songs, dance steps, and stories collected here are evidence of the artful work of maintaining and breathing new life into traditions, often in contexts that seem anything but traditional, by indigenous elders and artists. As the editor notes, there are no 'Native informants' in this study, only collaborators whose lives are shown to be as resilient as the repertories they performed.

THE ART OF TRADITION is itself a demonstration of the improvisation and resourcefulness that ensured the continuity of Native communities. In documenting the rich ethnographic material with refreshingly little analytical overlay, it serves today as a valuable primary resource on Native religions and cultures. ... Read more

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Native American tribe in a period of change
This is the first book edition of a 450-page typescript anthropological work on the upper Midwest Native American Anishinaabe tribe done in 1959 (whose three authors are now all deceased).

The 1950s were a crucial and in some ways transformative period for these Native Americans as well as others. They weren't trying to modernize nor adapt. Despite the tribal changes inevitably taking place in the changes in U.S. society and culture coming after World War II and the realization that the tribe could not survive isolated or indifferent to the mainstream, maintaining tribal identity was the primary aim. As McNally's Introduction explains, "[T]he materials [the authors] collected are anything but timeless traditions frozen in amber as museum pieces on the eve of their disappearance. Nor are they documents of what anthropologists of the time identified as the stuff of 'acculturation,' evidence of tradition's erosion by the forces of assimilation."

The anthropological material of songs, dances, lore, myths, and such are a "rekindling" (as McNally describes it) of the Anishinaabe identity. Thus this study is not an anthropological attempt to record a dying culture mainly from oral history of tribal elders, but is a record of how tribal members of all generations engaged in the "artful work of...breathing new life into traditions...often in venues and contexts that were anything but traditional." How traditional Christian hymns were rendered into Ojibwe and Odawa language to "count as Native American music" is an especially instructive artful work of appropriating dominant mainstream cultural elements into tribal traditions and identity.

Though focused on a particular Native American tribe, the content nonetheless has a place in the general field of Native American studies. For the Anishinaabe's "artful work [of] rekindling" fundamentals of their tribal culture as well gives insight into the ever-present tension between mainstream culture and indigenous ethnic culture.
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Uses the concept of "world-making" to provide an introduction to American Indian philosophy. ... Read more

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This is the first comprehensive examination of the history and role of the Omaha dance lodges-circular structures that blended earth lodge design and symbolism with late nineteenth century Euro-American architectural materials and elements on the Omaha Reservation in northeastern Nebraska. ... Read more

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First-hand investigation of Iroquois songs and dances by a modern dancer turned anthropologist. Includes descriptions, analysis, and diagrams of dance variants and words and music for dozens of songs and dances. Introduction by Tara Browner. Illustrations. Linguistic note. Songs and texts.
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Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America's suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami.

Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era's most powerful DJs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin—as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fuelled dance music'stireless engine.

Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special DJ discographies—listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade—and a more general discographycataloguing some 600 releases. Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos. ... Read more

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for any serious reader of music history, and it's fun!
Not only is this important narrative non-fiction that blends music history, sociology and politics, it's a total blast.I came of age in the 70's yet was never a huge fan of dance music or disco at the time. I wish I had paid more attention because after reading LOVE SAVES THE DAY, I clearly felt like I missed something really special.The development of the story from the earliest discotheques of the mid 60's in midtown Manhattan grew the inevitable birth of discos in the 70's where gays, straights, blacks, Latinos and whites got all mixed together with the magic elixir of dance music.For the most part it didn't matter who you were or where you came from in the pulsating, hot, hedonistic dance clubs of downtown and midtown, that quickly spread all over America and the world.Many of the key dj's are sadly no longer with us but their legacy will live forever in this marvelous book.

I was there...... Billy Smith (NYC)
I did it all and loved it all! also got paid for all of it....LOL! - Billy Smith (NYC) still hanging out and traving the world! 3/17/07

The Truth About Disco
Thank you Tim Lawrence.This book is the antedote to all the haters out there who still believe that "Disco Sucks" after the post-Comiskey Park backlash.This book is such an amazing and wonderfully readable document that I would recommend anyone interested in 20th century American musical history, or the [...]/black urban experience of the 1970's, or relatively recent New York history read it.Of course if you're interested indisco music or dance music the book is absolutely essential.

This book goes much deeper than the usual Studio 54 cliches that people associate with the genre (although Studio 54 is included, of course) and discusses the origins of the sound and the largely unhearalded people who made this scene happen.David Mancuso is described as a pivotable person here, and the folks who were there will confirm it.The book begins in his legendary club, The Loft, and lovingly details his obsession with sound and the disco experience.Other innovators from the early 70's are also featured including Francis Grasso, Steve D'Acquisto, Bob Casey, and many more.The scene is chronicaled from humble beginnings through the glory years of the mid 70's and ends the decade with the backlash in full swing in mainstream culture but continuing to thrive in clubs like Paradise Garage and Better Days.Along the way you meet producers like Walter Gibbons and Tom Moulton who made some of the classic recordings of the era, and Lawrence takes the time to explain what is so remarkable about their work.You also get delightfully naughty stories about some of the key players in the scene including DJ's, artists, and of course, the patrons that illustrate some of the excesses of the time .Personally, I think that it's this superb combination of detailed research and bitchy gossip that makes the book so thoroughly readable and fun.

I loved reading this book; the only drawback for me was that I couldn't help pining for the days when New York club culture was this incredible before AIDS and Rudy Guilliani conspired to very nearly kill it off (fortunately they weren't entirely successful).

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Historical review of a great era!
Lawrence is an academic, and he did not experience the 1970's himself, but he interviewed everyone still alive who did.He concentrates on the DJ's and clubs in New York City, rightly so, but he does branch out to the rest of the U.S. as disco did the same.Of special note are the great discographies in each chapter, presenting the club hits played by the DJ's in each particular year.He proves that disco is not a four letter word!

Fun and informative
This is a really fun book to read while also being informative. ... Read more

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Contemporary rededication, but not roots ethnomusicology
Anything on Native Amer-Indian music is worthy since so little has been written on it; however, this book is focused on the contemporary scene, the artists and their backgrounds, and their work in the world today. It was more of a cultural magazine anthology than a serious book on musicology: the music itself, lyrics, rhythms, tunes, and their development and historic spread. Note that this small book is even smaller considering that the text of this book is double-spaced, as in a manuscript, probably to increase the thickness of the edition.Although disappointed in the absence of scholarship, being unable to relate in detail the tradition to today's exploration, the information includes many interesting comments and biographical sketches, and shows how this music has left the dusty museum archives to a living, growing art.

The Insider's Scoop
Being the owner of a Native American booking and management agency, Native Voices Bkg. & Mngnt., I am particularly pleased that someone has put out such a thoughtful book on our music. Hale Schulman's "From Kokopellis to Electric Warriors" is a wide-ranging work on this specialized market that is an eye-opening treatise for anyone interested in the genre.

It is filled with nuggets of information one could find nowhere else and quite often let's the artists speak for themselves. Being a Sherman Alexie fan, I was delighted to read an interview with him where he describes when he first realized the meaning of a paragraph (a fence for words), which he then extrapolated into the larger context of life on the planet - totally precious stuff I wouldn't have known from any other source. Hale Schulman takes the same approach, writing of specific Native artists, then going into the larger world in which they play. Near the end there is a wonderful "Market Overview" listing retail sales per year, commercial radio stations playing Native music, national awards shows, Native record labels and much more.

This is a good place to learn the "insiders" background on the Native American Music Awards and it's vibrant founder, Ellen Bello, as well as finding listings for major Native festivals and their contact information. And for anyone interested in knowing the how's and why's of the GRAMMY's adding a Native American category at the 2000 Grammy's, you can read the whole "NAMA Proposal to NARAS For A Grammy Category".

I applaud Sandra for her dilegent work and comprehensive writing - may it open the doors for many such works to come!

A Passionate and Informative Read!
Sandra Hale Schulman's story on the Native American music scene is not only entirely up to date but written with sheer passion. This author has done her research and has obviously been moved by the Native American musicians and anscestors that she has met. While many Americans have the urge to trace their heritage, Schulman has been inspired by her quest to trace her own. But ancestory or not- this writer has written a newsworthy guideline for anyone who wants to learn more about the Native American Music in today's marketplace.

FROM KOKOPELLIS TO ELECTRIC WARRIORS is a must read for anyone studying Native American history and/or music. Journalist Schulman writes about Native Americans from the tribes as far east as Manhattan to as far west as Hawaii covering musicians, artists and poets including traditional Pow Wows to the NAMMY"S to Slack Key guitar. Enjoy the experience!

L. Shellist

A tour of the Native American Music Scene
Written by a board member of the Native American Music Association, this book is a tour of the heartfelt culture of Native American music, from the red soil of the reservation all the way to the Grammys.Sandra Hale Schulman conducts this exploration and introduces such Native artists, activists, and performers as Robbie Robertson, Rita Coolidge, Bill Miller, Hank Williams III, and Joey Ramone.

From the Smoky Mountains to the Las Vegas strip to the Everglades, Schulman profiles festivals, award shows and songwriters and proves Native American music is not just for powwows any more.

"From Kokopellis to Electric Warriors" is a great jumping off point for anyone who wants to learn about the evolution of the music, all the way to today's rock 'n roll. Russell Means, R. Carlos Nakai, Tiger Tiger, Blackfire, and Redbone are some of the diverse talents introduced in this entertaining and informative book.

The reader comes away with a better understanding of the complex and competitive world of music as this reference points the way to Native American talent in all its many facets. ... Read more

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Olivia A. Bloechl reconceives the history of French and English music from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century from the perspective of colonial history. She demonstrates how encounters with Native American music in the early years of colonization changed the course of European music history. Colonial wealth provided for sumptuous and elite musical display, and American musical practices, materials, and ideas fed Europeans' taste for exoticism, as in the masques, ballets, and operas discussed here. The gradual association of Native American song with derogatory stereotypes of musical 'savagery' pressed Europeans to distinguish their own music as civilized and rational. Drawing on evidence from a wide array of musical, linguistic, and visual sources, this book demonstrates that early American colonization shaped European music cultures in fundamental ways, and it offers a fresh, politically and transculturally informed approach to the study of music in the early colonial Atlantic world. ... Read more

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From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear for government officials and opportunity for Native peoples?

In this innovative study, John W. Troutman explores the politics of music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and Chautaqua circuits. On their reservations, the Lakotas manipulated concepts of U.S. citizenship and patriotism to reinvigorate and innovate social dances, even while the federal government stepped up efforts to suppress them. At Carlisle Indian School, teachers and bandmasters used music in hopes of imposing their "civilization" agenda, but students made their own meaning of their music. Finally, many former students, armed with saxophones, violins, or operatic vocal training, formed their own "all-Indian" and tribal bands and quartets and traversed the country, engaging the market economy, and federal Indian policy initiatives, on their own terms.

While recent scholarship has offered new insights into the experiences of "show Indians" and evolving powwow traditions, Indian Blues is the first book to explore the polyphony of Native musical practices and their relationship to federal Indian policy in this important period of American Indian history. ... Read more

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How the U.S. government tried to control music on reservations through the 1920s
INDIAN BLUES: AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE POLITICS OF MUSIC, 1879-1934 tells of how the U.S. government tried to control music on reservations through the 1920s, sparking a resistance on the parts of Native singers and dancers who decided to manipulate these policies. Both music history libraries and those at the college level specializing in Native history will find this an impressive exploration of the politics of music and Native American issues. ... Read more

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This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks. The Ghost Dance has become a metaphor for the death of American Indian culture, but as Gregory Smoak argues, it was not the desperate fantasy of a dying people but a powerful expression of a racialized "Indianness." While the Ghost Dance did appeal to supernatural forces to restore power to native peoples, on another level it became a vehicle for the expression of meaningful social identities that crossed ethnic, tribal, and historical boundaries. Looking closely at the Ghost Dances of 1870 and 1890, Smoak constructs a far-reaching, new argument about the formation of ethnic and racial identity among American Indians. He examines the origins of Shoshone and Bannock ethnicity, follows these peoples through a period of declining autonomy vis-a-vis the United States government, and finally puts their experience and the Ghost Dances within the larger context of identity formation and emerging nationalism which marked United States history in the nineteenth century. ... Read more

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Ghost Dance
Adequate information relative for our need to promote greater understanding from Native American perspective of what it was really all about.
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This book and accompanying compact disk offer a rare glimpse into Native American cultural and sacred traditions of song and dance. The book and CD are the result of a multi-year collaboration among the members of Washington State's tribes, Jack Straw Productions, the Northwest Folklife Festival, and the Washington State Arts Commission's Folk Arts Program. 54 illustrations, 22 in color. ... Read more

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Excellent resource for Northwest Native American culture
I am a graduate student at WSU in Pullman.This text is an excellent resource for those wishing to deepen their understanding and appreciation for Northwest Native American culture.The accompanying CD is the only one that I could locate which has authentic Northwest tribal music; most Native American music available through retail outlets today are the melodic flute tunes of Southwestern tribes.

Book includes information on instruments, dance regalia, as well as histories about musical traditions.

Tribes included in the CD include the Makah, Quileute, Yakama, Chinook, Skokomish, Tulalip, Lummi, Okanogan, Spokane, Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Colville.
I would recommend this book to anyone!

Spirit of the First People is inspiring!
Native American Music Traditions of Washington State. This book & accompanying compact disk offer a rare glimpse into the NorthWest Native American's sacred traditions of song & dance.

Arising from a unique exhibit & live performance at the Northwest Folklife Festival, Spirit of the First People is a collection of personal narratives, stories & essays on the music of the First People in the region that now encampasses Washington State. From tribe to tribe & reservation to reservation across the state, a wide range of musical genres & individual styles have developed, including social dance songs, game songs & hymns.

It takes time to re-tune our ears from listening to the artificial & steroidal music we're used to. Listening to both the CD & reading the stories is like hearing the thunder in a gorge, a hawk on the wind, snow-muffled footsteps, water rushing to the sea. The voices of the People of the Earth whose ears have heard its heartbeats & remember the stories.

Tucked into the many memories of boarding school, singing the songs to life,berry gathering & potlatches is a gallery of exquisite black & white archival photos as well has full color ones of today's families, ceremonial regalia & drums.

A rare treat & an inspired gift for someone you know who favors music of a First People. A treasure! For my full review do check out: [my website].
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Here, for the first time, the entire range of plays, musicals, ballets, operas, and pantomimes featuring Native American characters is analyzed in detail. With a playlist of over 300 titles, bibliography, and index. ... Read more

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From the point of view of a classically trained singer and Professor of Voice at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, A Study in Native American Singing and Song delves into Native American voice pedagogy and the interrelated subjects of song-making and song-makers. Out of the myriad of publications and articles on the subject of the American Indian, none is wholly devoted to the subject of vocal production; discovering more than a paragraph is rare and is sometimes like finding a needle in a haystack. This study is an attempt to bring together the collective knowledge of generations of ethnomusicologists, including the author's firsthand experiences while on a year's sabbatical in New Mexico. The first part of the study is a narrative of the author's experience at the Tembishare (Harvest Dance) at San Juan Pueblo located north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. A detailed description is followed by a transcription of a lengthy interview between the author and the late Peter Garcia, who had been for many years, the leading ceremonial singer at San Juan.One of the rare Native Americans who openly embraced inquisitive outsiders in their quest for knowledge of pueblo customs, ceremonies and singing, Peter talks about his life at San Juan Pueblo, the singing traditions which were passed down through generations of his family, including vocal technique, the making of songs and dances, the Tewa language, vocal health, and most impressive, the importance of sharing his knowledge with others.Voice Pedagogy, the main focus of the book, provides numerous contrasting descriptions of Native American tribes and their vocal practices, including current and historical descriptions by the author and esteemed ethnomusicologists such as Frances Densmore, George List, Bruno Nettl, Charlotte Heth, Alice Fletcher, among many others. Vocal topics such as breathing, resonance, range, vowel formation, vocables (non-word syllables), women and the art of singing, and vocal health are brought together in one place for the first time. The Making of Native Songs details the form, melody, and harmony of Native American vocal music.Included is a chart that outlines the relationship between specific pitches and colors and their physical representation in the Native world. Song texts, themes and subjects, and the non-word "vocables," as well as styles of instrumental accompaniment, are discussed. Parallels are drawn between Native culture and Western music, poetry and religious practices. The chapter concludes with a discussion of current and historical Native singers, such as Mary Redhouse, Bill Miller, and Tsianina Redfeather. The final part of this study, Western Composers and Native Songs, contains an exhaustive listing of Western and some Native composers and their vocal works influenced directly by Native American Culture. Of special interest are those composers of the "Indianist" movement in the early part of the Twentieth Century (Cadman, Farwell, etc.). A short biographical sketch accompanies each composer's entry. ... Read more