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Songprints : The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women / Judith Vander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vander, Judith, author.
- Series:
- Music in American life.
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Music--History and criticism.
- Indians of North America.
- Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations, music.
- Edition:
- 1st Illinois paperback. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign University of Illinois Press 1995
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press ; 1996
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Songprints explores the musical lives of Native American women as they navigate a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shoshone of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. Judith Vander captures the distinct personalities of five generations of Shoshone women as they describe their thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward their music. Ranging in age from seventy to twenty, the women provide a unique historical perspective on twentieth-century Wind River Shoshone life. In addition to documenting these oral histories, Vander transcribes and analyzes seventy-five songs that the women sing--a microcosm of Northern Plains Indian music. As she shows, each woman possesses her own songprint, a repertoire distinctive to her culture, age, and personality, as unique in its configuration as a fingerprint or footprint. Vander places the women's song repertoires in the context of Shoshone social and religious ceremonies as she offers insights into the rise of the Native American Church, the emergence and popularity of the contemporary powwow, and the expanding role of women.
- Contents:
- Emily Hill
- Angelina Wagon
- Alberta Roberts
- Helene Furlong
- Lenore Shoyo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.
- "Winner of the 1989 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the 1989 Pauline Alderman Prize for New Scholarship on Women in Music"--Page 4 of cover.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-252-04852-0
- OCLC:
- 1535173311
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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