Record details

• ISBN: 0803218168
• ISBN: 9780803218161
• Physical Description: xii, 519 pages : tables, music ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-515) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Ethnographic Background. 1. Introduction. 2. Genres Associated with the House-Building and Mortuary Potlatches. 3. Lullabies. 4. Mourning Songs. 5. Songs Associated with Warfare. 6. Songs Associated with the Vengeance Potlatch. 7. Music and Contact with the Supernatural. 8. Songs Used in Play. 9. Miscellaneous Genres. 10. Borrowed Songs and Songs Not Assignable to Genres. 11. Composition. 12. Performance. 13. Haida Musical Concepts. 14. The Decline of Traditional Music. 15. Singers and Sources Represented in the Collection -- pt. 2. Transcriptions -- pt. 3. Analysis. 1. Musical Analysis. 2. Linguistic Analysis.

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Subject:

Haida Indians > Music > History and criticism.
Folk music > British Columbia > History and criticism.
Folk music > Alaska > History and criticism.
Folk songs, Haida > British Columbia > History and criticism.
Folk songs, Haida > Alaska > History and criticism.
Songs, Haida > Alaska > History and criticism.
Songs, Haida > British Columbia > History and criticism.
Songs, Haida.
Folk music.
Folk songs, Haida.
Songs, Haida.
Alaska.
British Columbia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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• Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians
• Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.