Imagining Native America in Music

This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the nineteenth century; from eighteenth-century British-American theater to the musical theater of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvo DEGREESrak to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns.

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Title of ebook: Imagining Native America in Music
ISBN: 9780300130737
parent-ISBN: 9780300108934
Publisher: Yale University Press
Internet download file size: 1939 kb
Pages: 422
Published: 11-2005
Released online for download: 11-01-2005
Author of eBook: Pisani, Michael V

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Acknowledgments........................................................................................................................ix Notes for the Reader...................................................................................................................xiii Introduction: A Language for Imagining Native America..................................................................................1 Part One: New World Americans 1. Noble Savagery in European Court Entertainments, 1550-1760..........................................................................17 2. Death, Defiance, and Diplomacy: Resistance in British-American Theater and Song, 1710-1808..........................................44 Part Two: Exotic Peoples, Exotic Sounds 3. Imagining the Frontier, 1795-1860...................................................................................................79 4. "In the Glory of the Sunset": Singing and Playing Hiawatha..........................................................................126 Part Three: Nostalgia for a Native Land 5. Ethnographic Encounters........................ ... read full excerpt from Imagining Native America in Music ebook

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