Author(s): Michael V Pisani
Language: English
Pages: 439
Imagining Native America in Music......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Notes for the Reader......Page 14
Imagining Native America in Music......Page 16
Introduction: A Language for Imagining Native America......Page 18
I. New World Americans......Page 32
1. Noble Savagery in European Court Entertainments, 1550– 1760......Page 34
2. Death, Defiance, and Diplomacy: Resistance in British-American Theater and Song, 1710– 1808......Page 61
II. Exotic Peoples, Exotic Sounds......Page 94
3. Imagining the Frontier, 1795– 1860......Page 96
4. "In the Glory of the Sunset": Singing and Playing......Page 143
III. Nostalgia for a Native Land......Page 176
5. Ethnographic Encounters......Page 178
6. The Nationalism Controversy: Quotation or Intonation?......Page 199
7. In Search of the Authentic: Musical Tribal Portraits, 1890–1911......Page 228
III. Americans Again......Page 258
8. "I'm an Indian Too": Playing Indian in Song and on Stage, 1900–1946......Page 260
9. Underscoring Ancestry: Music for Native America in Film......Page 309
Conclusion......Page 347
Appendix 1 Forty-nine Parlor Indian Songs and Ten Parlor Instrumental Works, 1802– 1860s, Arranged Chronologically......Page 350
Appendix 2 Selected List of Instrumental Character Pieces ( Musical Tribal Portraits)......Page 353
Notes......Page 358
Bibliography......Page 400
Index......Page 432
