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Title:Essential Song : Three Decades of Northern Cree Music
Series:(Aboriginal Studies Series)
Author:Lynn Whidden
ISBN:0889204594 : 9780889204591
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:174
Weight: .438 Kg.
Published:Wilfrid Laurier University Press - March 2007
List Price: 49.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Indigenous peoples: Canada: MUSIC


Book and CD. This unique book presents a culturally significant outline of Cree musical history and an important contribution to ethnomusicology, social history, and Aboriginal studies. CD contains over 80 Cree hunting songs.

Prologue: The Cree Come to Campus; Introduction; Song and Ceremony; Song and History; Song and Survival; Hymns and Hunting Songs; Country Music: How Can You Dance to Beethoven?; Powwow in the Subarctic; The Powwow: From the South to the Subarctic; Conclusion.