Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America (Music in American Life)

About this book

This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and non-Native scholars who provide erudite and illuminating perspectives on aboriginal culture incorporating both traditional practices and contemporary musical influences. Gathering scholarship on a realm of intense interest but little previous publication this collection promises to revitalize the study of Native music in North America an area of ethnomusicology that stands to benefit greatly from these scholars cooperative community-oriented methods. Contributors are T. Christopher Aplin Tara Browner Paula Conlon David E. Draper Elaine Keillor Lucy Lafferty Franziska von Rosen David Samuels Laurel Sercombe and Judith Vander.