| Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women Contributor(s): Vander, Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 025206545X ISBN-13: 9780252065453 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: 'This book makes an unusual contribution to the large body of literature dealing with Native American music and its cultural context. Most important, it reports on the musical life of women in one Indian tribe, helping to balance a body of scholarship that has concentrated largely on men's musical activities.'--Bruno Nettl, Choice |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 780 |
| Series: Music in American Life (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.04" W x 8.93" (1.07 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Songprints explores the musical lives of Native American women as they navigate a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shoshone of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. Judith Vander captures the distinct personalities of five generations of Shoshone women as they describe their thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward their music. Ranging in age from seventy to twenty, the women provide a unique historical perspective on twentieth-century Wind River Shoshone life. In addition to documenting these oral histories, Vander transcribes and analyzes seventy-five songs that the women sing--a microcosm of Northern Plains Indian music. As she shows, each woman possesses her own songprint, a repertoire distinctive to her culture, age, and personality, as unique in its configuration as a fingerprint or footprint. Vander places the women's song repertoires in the context of Shoshone social and religious ceremonies as she offers insights into the rise of the Native American Church, the emergence and popularity of the contemporary powwow, and the expanding role of women. |