Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nation Communities in Northeastern America (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

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The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the musical instruments of native people in Northeastern North The united states, Visions of Sound specializes in interpretations by elders and consultants from Iroquois, Wabanati, Innuat, and Anishnabek communities. Beverley Diamond, M. Sam Cronk, and Franziska von Rosen present these instruments in a theoretically innovative setting organized around such abstract themes as complementarity, twinness, and relationship. As sources of metaphor—in both sound and image—instruments are interpreted within a framework that regards meaning as “emergent” and that challenges plenty of previous ethnographic descriptions. In spite of everything, the association between sound and “motion”—an association that illuminates the unity of music and dance and the life cycles of individual musical instruments—is explored.

Featuring over two hundred photographs of instruments, dialogues a few of the coauthors, a lot of interviews with individual music makers, and an appended catalogue of over seven hundred instrument descriptions, that is crucial book for all ethnomusicologists and students of Native American culture in addition to general readers interested in Native American mythology and non secular life.
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