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Southern Cheyenne Women’s Songs

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Playing, joking, teaching, courting, encouraging, and praying: such on a regular basis activities and the songs that go with them are the subjects of this unique study of latest Southern Cheyenne women’s music.
Based on Virginia Giglio’s respectful but easy, familial relationship with the Indian singer-composers, Southern Cheyenne Women’s Songs includes an overview of Cheyenne culture and history in addition to analyses of thirty-two songs and their variants: lullabies and children’s songs, hand-game songs, social songs, and Christian spiritual songs. Along with musical and textual transcriptions and translations, the creator provides the wealthy cultural context of the music: the songs’ history and the circumstances and backgrounds of the singer-composers, who told her the songs’ meanings and the social settings in which they’re used and shaped in the ongoing Cheyenne musical tradition. A sampling of closely related Arapaho Indian songs is an appendix.
The songs collected, transcribed, and recorded in this reverent and insightful study offer an interesting entryway into the lives of nowadays’s Plains women. Southern Cheyenne Women’s Songs, Along with having value for ethnomusicologists, cultural anthropologists, and other students of Indian cultural expression, may also be useful in women’s studies and to readers with a general interest in things Indian.

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