Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music (Indigenous Studies)

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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 results of more than twenty years spent within 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 have an effect on of social change—including the introduction of hymns, Gospel tunes, and country music—at the song traditions of these communities.

The book also explores the introduction of powwow song into the subarctic and the Crees struggle to care for their Aboriginal heritage—to find a type of song that, like the hunting songs, can serve as a non secular 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, Essential Song makes a very powerful contribution to ethnomusicology, social history, and Aboriginal studies.

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