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245 10 a| Imagining native America in music /c| Michael V. Pisani.;

300 a| xiv, 422 pages :b| illustrations, maps, music ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-414) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: a language for imagining native America -- Part one: New World Americans. Noble savagery in European court entertainments, 1550-1760 ; Death, defiance, and diplomacy: resistance in British-American theater and song, 1710-1808 -- Part two: Exotic peoples, exotic sounds. Imagining the frontier, 1795-1860 ; "In the glory of the sunset": singing and playing Hiawatha -- Part three: Nostalgia for a native land. Ethnographic encounters ; The nationalism controversy: quotation or intonation ; In search of the authentic: musical tribal portraits, 1890-1911 -- Part four: Americans again. "I'm an Indian too": playing Indian in song and on stage, 1900-1946 ; Underscoring ancestry: music for Native America in film -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Forty-nine parlor Indian songs and ten parlor instrumental works, 1802-1860s, arranged chronologically ; Appendix 2. Selected list of instrumental character pieces (musical tribal portraits).;

520 a| 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 Dvorak to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns. The author demonstrates how European colonists and their descendants were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and he examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. The author reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this "Indian music," which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealized and vilified the peoples of native America.;

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Imagining native America in music / Michael V. Pisani.

Author/creator	Pisani, Michael V.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Description	xiv, 422 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm
Subjects	Indians in music. Music--America. --History and criticism. Music--Social aspects. --America. Exoticism in music.

Contents	Introduction: a language for imagining native America -- Part one: New World Americans. Noble savagery in European court entertainments, 1550-1760 ; Death, defiance, and diplomacy: resistance in British-American theater and song, 1710-1808 -- Part two: Exotic peoples, exotic sounds. Imagining the frontier, 1795-1860 ; "In the glory of the sunset": singing and playing Hiawatha -- Part three: Nostalgia for a native land. Ethnographic encounters ; The nationalism controversy: quotation or intonation ; In search of the authentic: musical tribal portraits, 1890-1911 -- Part four: Americans again. "I'm an Indian too": playing Indian in song and on stage, 1900-1946 ; Underscoring ancestry: music for Native America in film -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Forty-nine parlor Indian songs and ten parlor instrumental works, 1802-1860s, arranged chronologically ; Appendix 2. Selected list of instrumental character pieces (musical tribal portraits).
Abstract	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 Dvorak to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns. The author demonstrates how European colonists and their descendants were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and he examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. The author reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this "Indian music," which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealized and vilified the peoples of native America.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-414) and index.
LCCN	2005019915
ISBN	0300108931 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780300108934

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