Shoshone ghost dance religion : poetry songs and Great Basin context /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vander, Judith
Format: Book
Language:English
Central American Indian (Other)
Language Notes:Includes music with Shoshone text.
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
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.