Essential Song
Three Decades of Northern Cree Music (AS)
Har/Com edition
Our rough guess is there are 47,500 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 3 hours and 10 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 7 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Word Count
47,500 words, Guess
Page Count
190 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11267862M
- ISBN-139780889204591
- ISBN-100889204594
- OCLC Control Number86225835
- OCLC Control Number1032666342
and 3 more
- Internet Archiveessentialsongthr0000whid
- LibraryThing4786145
- Goodreads1951761
Classifications
- LCCML3557
Description
"Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree, Lynn Whidden's account discusses the tradition of the hunting songs, their meanings and origins, and their importance to the hunt. She examines women's songs, and traces the impact of social change - including the introduction of hymns, gospel tunes, and country music - on the song traditions of these communities." "This book also explores the introduction of the powwow song into the subarctic and the Cree's struggle to maintain their Aboriginal heritage - to find a kind of song that, like the hunting songs, can serve as a spiritual guide and force." "Including profiles of the hunters and their songs and accompanied by an original CD of more than fifty Cree hunting songs, Essential Song makes an important contribution to ethnomusicology, social history, and Aboriginal studies."--Jacket.
Subjects
Topics
Other Editions
- Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music (AS)
Similar Books
Field Guide to the Irish Music Session
Barry Foy
The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java
Williams, Sean, Sean Williams
Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow (Music in American Life)
Tara Browner
The voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthūm, Arabic song, and Egyptian society in the twentieth century
Virginia Danielson.
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!