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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford Unviversity Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.