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Table of Contents Foreword Preface CD Track List 1: Traditions of Knowledge: Indigenous Knowledge and the Western Music School Names Matter! Writing this Book as an Encounter Traditional Ways of Knowing Traditional Indigenous Knowledge The Great Texts of Native American Communities as TIK? Language, Oral Transmission, and Worldview Place and Attention to the Environment The Inseparability of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Oral Transmission, and Experience Relationality What Ethnomusicology Brings to the Study 2: Music and Historical Encounter: Inuit Communities Traditional Genres of Song Inuit Musical as Historical Record and Judicial System Inuit Music as Play New Throat Singing Encounters: Local-Global Tensions 3: Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian Nations Retaining Pre-Contact Forms of Traditional Knowledge Spaces Beyond Colonial Control Rituals of Renewal Narratives and Performances that Relate to Encounter Indigneous Uses of New Performance Traditions Christian Hymns Secular Repertoires and Contexts Contemporary Wabenaki Social Dance and Song Traditions Introducing the Haudenosaunee 4: Music and Historical Encounter: Haudenosaunee Music Culture with Occasional References to Cherokee Traditions Attending a Sing Traditional Knowledge and Modernity: Contemporary Adaptations of Social Dance Songs Haudenosaunee Singers and Social Dance Songs Iroquois Hymns Traditional Knowledge and Encounter 5: Contemporary Inter-Tribal and Cross-Cultural Native American Music Powwows in Eastern North America Powwow Fundamentals The Commodification of Powwow Music Contemporary Popular Music and Theatre Contemporary Native American Music and Identity Epilogue Glossary References Resources Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Indians of North America -- Music -- History and criticism.
Indians of North America -- Music -- Social aspects.
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.