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Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow
Tara Browner
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Description for Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow
Paperback. The inter tribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Now in paperback, this book is a journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of the Pow-wow. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 200 pages, 25 photographs, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; ASD; AVGH; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.
The intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Heartbeat of the People is an insider's journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of these vital cultural events. Tara Browner focuses on the Northern pow-wow of the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes to investigate the underlying tribal and regional frameworks that reinforce personal tribal affiliations. Interviews with dancers and her own participation in pow-wow events and community provide fascinating on-the-ground accounts and provide detail to a rare ethnomusicological analysis of Northern music and dance.
The intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Heartbeat of the People is an insider's journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of these vital cultural events. Tara Browner focuses on the Northern pow-wow of the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes to investigate the underlying tribal and regional frameworks that reinforce personal tribal affiliations. Interviews with dancers and her own participation in pow-wow events and community provide fascinating on-the-ground accounts and provide detail to a rare ethnomusicological analysis of Northern music and dance.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Music in American Life
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071867
SKU
V9780252071867
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About Tara Browner
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.
Reviews for Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more