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Essential Song [180 Day Access]

Essential Song [180 Day Access]
Author: Lynn Whidden
Price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1554588197
ISBN-13: 9781554588190
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Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: 180 Days

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Audio Files located at https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/E/Essential-Song   Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree, Lynn Whidden’s account discusses the tradition of the hunting songs, their meanings and origins, and their importance to the hunt. She also examines women’s songs, and traces the impact of social change—including the introduction of hymns, Gospel tunes, and country music—on the song traditions of these communities. The book also explores the introduction of powwow song into the subarctic and the Crees struggle to maintain their Aboriginal heritage—to find a kind of song that, like the hunting songs, can serve as a spiritual guide and force. Including profiles of the hunters and their songs and accompanied (online) by original audio tracks of more than fifty Cree hunting songs,  makes an important contribution to ethnomusicology, social history, and Aboriginal studies.