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Ojibwe singers : hymns, grief, and a native culture in motion /

The Ojibwe of Anishinaabe are a native American people who were taught by 19th-century missionaries to sing evangelical hymns translated into the native language both as a means of worship and as a tool for eradicating the ""indianness"" of the native people. Rather than American...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNally, Michael David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Unviversity Press, 2000.
Colección:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and overview
  • PART I: HISTORY: Sacred musics: traditional Obijwe music and Protestant hymnody
  • Objibwes, missionaries, and hymn singing, 1828-1867
  • Music as negotiation: uses of hymn singing, 1868-1934
  • PART II: ETHNOGRAPHY: Twentieth-century hymn singing as cultural criticism
  • Music as memory: contemporary hymn singing and the politics of death in Native America
  • Conclusion: Does hymn singing work! Notes on the logic of ritual practice.