Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America

Contents

Contents Introduction: Studying First Nations and Inuit Music 1 Tara Browner 1. Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs 7 Paula Conlon 2. Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and Land Songs 21 Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor 3. The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives 34 Laurel Sercombe 4. Drum, Songs, Vibrations: Conversations with a Passamaquoddy Traditional Singer 54 Franziska von Rosen (Introduction by Tara Browner) 5. Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the Performance of Native Choctaw Music 67 David E. Draper 6. “This Is Our Dance”: The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache 92 T. Christopher Aplin 7. The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs 113 Judith Vander 8. An Acoustic Geography of Intertribal Pow-wow Songs 131 Tara Browner 9. Singing Indian Country 141 David W. Samuels List of Contributors 161 Index 165 Acknowledgments I could not have completed this volume without the help and encouragement of friends, colleagues, and most of all the many patient authors, some of whom waited more than ten years for it to come to press. As with countless essay collections, this one was pieced together a bit at a time over almost a decade. It was a complex project, needing balance among different cultural areas, research methodologies, and historical eras. Meeting those requirements was the primary reason that assembling the collection took as long as it did. Nevertheless, I am grateful to those authors who stayed the course and did not withdraw their submissions for publication in other venues. Special thanks goes to Ben Harbert, who so beautifully reconfigured the musical examples into a format that would work for publication in a book with specific size limitations. I also appreciate the thorough readings given by my referees, and the work and support of Judith McCulloh and Laurie Matheson at the University of Illinois Press. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, whose funding was crucial to completing this volume. Music of the First Nations ...