Native American Music in Eastern North America Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD

by Diamond, Beverley

• ISBN13: 9780195301045
• ISBN10: 0195301048
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practiceof music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visitwww.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of the first books to explore the contemporary musical landscape of indigenous North Americans in the north and east. It shows how performance traditions of Native North Americans have been influenced by traditional social values andcultural histories, as well as by encounters and exchanges with other indigenous groups and with newcomers from Europe and Africa. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork and on case studies from several communities--including the Iroquois, the Algonquian-speaking nations of the Atlantic seaboard, andthe Inuit of the far north--author Beverley Diamond discusses intertribal celebrations, popular music projects, dance, art, and film. She also considers how technology has mediated present-day cultural communication and how traditional ideas about social roles and gender identities have beennegotiated through music. Enhanced by accounts of local performances, interviews with tribal elders and First Nations performers, vivid illustrations, and hands-on listening activities, Native American Music in Eastern North America provides a captivating introduction to this under-examined topic. It is packaged withan 80-minute audio CD containing twenty-six examples of the music discussed in the book, including several rare recordings. The author has also provided a list of eighteen songs representing a wide variety of styles--from traditional Native American chants to an Inuit collaboration with Bjork--thatare referenced in the book and available as an iMix at www.oup.com/us/globalmusic.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
CD Track List	p. xvii
Music Selections Available on iMix	p. xix
Traditions of Knowledge: Indigenous Knowledge and the Western Music School	p. 1
Names Matter!	p. 3
Writing This Book as an Encounter	p. 5
Traditional Ways of Knowing	p. 9
Traditional Indigenous Knowledge	p. 11
The Great Texts of Native American Communities as TIK?	p. 12
Language, Oral Transmission, and Worldview	p. 21
Place and Attention to the Environment	p. 26
The Inseparability of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Oral Transmission, and Experience	p. 31
Relationality	p. 32
What Ethnomusicology Brings to the Study	p. 33
Music and Historical Encounter: Inuit Communities	p. 35
Traditional Genres of Song	p. 37
Inuit Music as Historical Record and Judicial System	p. 39
Inuit Music as Play	p. 45
New Throat Singing Encounters: Local-Global Tensions	p. 55
Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian Nations	p. 60
Retaining Precontact Forms of Traditional Knowledge	p. 63
Spaces Beyond Colonial Control	p. 63
Rituals of Renewal	p. 67
Narratives and Performances that Relate to Encounter	p. 68
Indigenous Uses of New Performance Traditions	p. 71
Christian Hymns	p. 71
Secular Repertoires and Contexts	p. 79
Contemporary Wabenaki Social Dance and Song Traditions	p. 84
Wabenaki Cultural Revitalization	p. 89
Music and Historical Encounter: Haudenosaunee Music Culture with Occasional References to Cherokee Traditions	p. 95
Attending a "Sing"	p. 95
Introducing the Haudenosaunee	p. 100
Haudenosaunee Singers and Social Dance Songs	p. 103
Traditional Knowledge and Modernity: Contemporary Adaptations of Social Dance Songs	p. 112
Iroquois Hymns	p. 115
Traditional Knowledge and Encounter	p. 115
Contemporary Intertribal and Cross-Cultural Native American Music	p. 117
Powwows in Eastern North America	p. 118
Powwow Fundamentals	p. 122
The Commodification of Powwow Music	p. 133
Contemporary Popular Music and Theater	p. 134
Lee Cremo - "The Mystery Stepdancer"	p. 137
Forever - "My Way"	p. 138
Trurez Crew - "Why We Rhyme"	p. 139
Charlie Panigoniak - "Sweet Tobacco"	p. 141
Kashtin - "Akua Tuta"	p. 142
Murray Porter - "1492 Who Found Who"	p. 145
Ulali - "Museum Cases"	p. 146
Joy Harjo - "A Post Colonial Tale"	p. 148
BONES: An Aboriginal Dance Opera	p. 149
Contemporary Native American Music and Identity	p. 151
Epilogue	p. 153
Glossary	p. 155
References	p. 161
Resources	p. 169
Index	p. 181
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