Ebook: Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow
Author: Tara Browner
- Tags: Performing Arts, Sociology, Nonfiction, PER021000, SOC000000, SOC021000
- Series: Music in American Life
- Year: 2022
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Language: English
- epub
Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Terminology and Capitalization 1. All about Theory, Method, and Pow-wows 2. People and Histories Illustrations 3. Dance Styles and Regalia 4. Making and Singing Songs 5. Pow-wows in Space and Time 6. The Dancing of Six Generations: Lakol Wicoh'an Ki Wastélaka Imacage (I have grown up liking the Lakota ways) Illustrations 7. The Musical Life of an Anishnaabeg Family: Nda Maamawigaai (Together we dance) Afterword: When the Pow-wow's Over, Sweetheart . . . Notes Bibliography Index Back Cover|
"Keeps an even balance between respect for the topic and friendliness toward the reader. Essential for all public, academic, and tribal library collections."—Choice
"As a dancer herself, [Browner] had immediate access to the community of pow-wow participants, and as a scholar, she brings a historical and critical analysis to a politically sensitive subject . . . An accessible work for both Native and non-Native, nonspecialist audiences."—Library Journal
"Of Choctaw blood and an ethnomusicologist at UCLA, Browner is uniquely qualified to provide this glimpse into the cultural environment of the pow-wow . . . It is in the voices of her interview subjects that [the book] really shines. "—John Nettles, PopMatters.com
|Tara Browner is a professor of ethnnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the editor of Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North American Music. She is Oklahoma Choctaw and dances in the Women's Southern Cloth tradition.