Book Description
Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing
Author : Reginald Laubin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806121727
Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing
Author : Gregory E. Smoak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0520256271
" This is a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern world."—Richard White, author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
Author : Charlotte Heth
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, with Starwood Pub.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Indian dance
ISBN :
This premier publication of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian documents Native American dance with stunning photographs and essays by noted contributors.
Author : William K. Powers
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Indian dance
ISBN : 9780816511709
Eleven essays on shared characteristics of traditional dances and music used in modern day Pow Wows.
Author : Tisa Joy Wenger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807832626
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act
Author : Bessie Evans
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258835002
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Author : BERNARD S. MASON
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1944
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Carol Spindel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814771106
A persuasive and compassionate analysis of the appropriation of Native American culture in sports Sports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles, and the Warriors and Chiefs of their hometown high schools. But outside the stadiums, American Indians aren't cheering—they're yelling racism. School boards and colleges are bombarded with emotional demands from both sides, while professional teams find themselves in court defending the right to trademark their Indian names and logos. In the face of opposition by a national anti-mascot movement, why are fans so determined to retain the fictional chiefs who plant flaming spears and dance on the fifty-yard line? To answer this question, Dancing at Halftime takes the reader on a journey through the American imagination where our thinking about American Indians has been, and is still being, shaped. Dancing at Halftime is the story of Carol Spindel's determination to understand why her adopted town is so passionately attached to Chief Illiniwek, the American Indian mascot of the University of Illinois. She rummages through our national attic, holding dusty souvenirs from world's fairs and wild west shows, Edward Curtis photographs, Boy Scout handbooks, and faded football programs up to the light. Outside stadiums, while American Indian Movement protestors burn effigies, she listens to both activists and the fans who resent their attacks. Inside hearing rooms and high schools, she poses questions to linguists, lawyers, and university alumni. A work of both persuasion and compassion, Dancing at Halftime reminds us that in America, where Pontiac is a car and Tecumseh a summer camp, Indians are often our symbolic servants, functioning as mascots and metaphors that express our longings to become "native" Americans, and to feel at home in our own land.
Author : Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1452913439
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Author : Bessie Evans
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0486145506
This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps Native American groups have used to express ideas — from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourrée.