Music of the First Nations

Tara Browner is a professor of ethnomusicology and American Indian studies at UCLA and the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Tara Browner 1. Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs Paula Conlon 2. Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and Land Songs Lucy Lafferty and Elaine Keillor 3. The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives Laurel Sercombe 4. Drum, Songs, Vibrations: Conversations with a Passamaquoddy Traditional Singer Franziska von Rosen 5. Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the Performance of Native Choctaw Music David E. Draper 6. "This is Our Dance": The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache T. Chris Aplin 7. The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs Judith Vander 8. An Acoustic Geography of Intertribal Pow-wow Songs Tara Browner 9. Singing Indian Country David Samuels List of Contributors Index

"Essential reading for ethnomusicologists, Native music scholars, and other readers who are interested in the musical journeying of people and repertoires across North America."--Great Plains Quarterly"Tara Browner's edited volume on American Indian music, originally published in 2009 and issued as a paperback in 2022, provides context and analysis that sheds light on key areas where music intersects prominently with Indian cultures: dance, identity, mythology, poetics, and spiritual power." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews"This anthology offers an exciting variety of scholarly studies of musical practices of First Peoples. This highly influential work undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, containing essays that will become widely cited."--Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture