Shoshone ghost dance religion : poetry songs and Great Basin context /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Central American Indian (Other) |
| Language Notes: | Includes music with Shoshone text. |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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Table of Contents:
- Great Basin context : power in nature, shamanism, and the round dance
- Naraya songs related to the 1890 ghost dance movement
- Water
- Fog, mountains, and rocks
- Animals : ground people, sky people, and water people
- Plants
- Sun, stars, and night
- Textual analysis
- Musical analysis
- Song text comparisons : naraya with Great Basin and Plains ghost dance.