The Ojibwa Dance Drum: Its History and Construction

by Vennum, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780873516426
• ISBN10: 0873516427
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr

Summary

"Initially published in 1982 as volume two of the Smithsonian's Folklife Studies series, Thomas Vennum's The Ojibwa Dance Drum is widely recognized as a significant ethnography of woodland Indians. His refreshing undertaking combined aging anthropological field studies with new ethnographic fieldwork and led him deep into the study of the Ojibwa dance drum."

Author Biography

Thomas Vennum served as an ethnomusicologist for twenty-seven years at the Smith-sonian Institution. He is a specialist in Native American music, about which he has published extensively. Rick St. Germaine is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 11
Foreword	p. 12
History
The Ojibwa and Their Music	p. 14
The Origin and Early History of the Dance Drum	p. 44
The Drum Dance and Its Functions	p. 76
The Decline of the Drum Dance	p. 132
Construction
The Drum Proper	p. 156
Decorations	p. 170
Accessories	p. 209
Variants	p. 241
Appendixes
The Dog Feast	p. 250
The Lac Court Oreilles Drum Dance, circa 1940	p. 253
Drum Society Structures	p. 268
Soundtrack Transcription of the Film The Drummaker	p. 271
Glossary of Ojibwa Terms	p. 281
Key to Abbreviated Sources	p. 285
Notes	p. 286
Bibliography: Sources on the Ojibwa and Their Music	p. 319
Afterword	p. 321
Index	p. 333
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