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Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs Aesthetics and Survival / Ann Morrison Spinney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spinney, Ann Morrison, 1962-
- Series:
- Native Americans of the Northeast.
- Native Americans of the Northeast
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs, Passamaquoddy.
- Passamaquoddy Indians--Maine--Rites and ceremonies.
- Passamaquoddy Indians.
- Passamaquoddy Indians--Maine--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 258 p. ) ill., music ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on extensive research across several disciplines, this book examines the songs and dances involved in public ceremonies of the Wabanaki Confederacy, a coalition of five Algonquian First Nations that figured importantly in the political history of New England and the Maritimes from the seventeenth century on.
- Contents:
- Identity, history, tradition
- Sources
- Overview of Passamaquoddy songs
- Musical instruments
- Welcoming ceremonies
- Ceremonies of peace and war
- The marriage ceremony and social dances
- Aesthetics and survival.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-046-9
- OCLC:
- 794700500
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