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Imagining native America in music

Title
  1. Imagining native America in music / Michael V. Pisani.
Published by
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005], ©2005.
Author
  1. Pisani, Michael V.

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Description
  1. xiv, 422 pages : illustrations, maps, music; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Music > America > History and criticism
  2. Music > Social aspects > America
  3. Exoticism in music
Contents
  1. Introduction : a language for imagining native America -- 1. Noble savagery in European court entertainments, 1550-1760 -- 2. Death, defiance, and diplomacy : resistance in British-American theater and song, 1710-1808 -- 3. Imagining the frontier, 1795-1860 -- 4. "In the glory of the sunset" : singing and playing Hiawatha -- 5. Ethnographic encounters -- 6. The nationalism controversy : quotation or intonation? -- 7. In search of the authentic : musical tribal portraits, 1890-1911 -- 8. "I'm an Indian too" : playing Indian in song and on stage, 1900-1946 -- 9. Underscoring ancestry : music for native America in film -- App. 1. Forty-nine parlor Indian songs and ten parlor instrumental works, 1802-1860s, arranged chronologically -- App. 2. Selected list of instrumental character pieces (musical tribal portraits).
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-414) and index.