Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians
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A01=Alan Merriam
acculturation studies
Author_Alan Merriam
Beginning Tone
Blue Jay Dance
Canvas Dance
Category=NH
cultural anthropology
dance
Dance Songs
Dog Song
Duration Tone
Durational Values
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Final Flattening
Flathead Indians
Flathead music
Flathead Reservation
Gift Dance
guardian
Hand Drum
Incomplete Repetition
indigenous musicology
Melodic Intervals
Melodic Level
music theory analysis
North American Indian Music
owl
Owl Dance
personal
Personal Songs
quest
ritual music practices
scalp
Scalp Dance
song
songs
sound instrument classification
Stick Game
Subjective Tonic
supernatural origins of music
Tape II
Terrace Type
Tonal Range
tribal skills
vision
war
War Dance Songs
Winter Spirit Dance
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138523081
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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All people, in no matter what culture, must be able to place their music firmly in the context of the totality of their beliefs, experiences, and activities, for without such ties, music cannot exist. This means that there must be a body of theory connected with any music system - not necessarily a theory of the structure of music sound, although that may be present as well, but rather a theory of what music is, what it does, and how it is coordinated with the total environment, both natural and cultural, in which human beings move.The Flathead Indians of Western Montana (just over 26,000 in number as of the 2000 census) inhabit a reservation consisting of 632,516 acres of land in the Jocko and Flathead Valleys and the Camas Prairie country, which lie roughly between Evaro and Kalispell, Montana. The reservation is bounded on the east by the Mission Range, on the west by the Cabinet National Forest, on the south by the Lolo National Forest, and on the north by an arbitrary line, approximately bisecting Flathead Lake about twenty-four miles south of Kalispell. The area is one of the richest agricultural regions in Montana, and fish and game are abundant. The Flathead are engaged in stocking, timbering, and various agricultural enterprises.For the Flathead, the most important single fact about music and its relationship to the total world is its origin in the supernatural sphere. All true and proper songs, particularly in the past, owe their origin to a variety of contacts experienced by humans with beings which, though a part of this world, are superhuman and the source of both individual and tribal powers and skills. Thus a sharp distinction is drawn by the Flathead between what they call "make-up" and all other songs. Merriam's pioneering work in the relationship of ethnography and musicology remains a primary source in this field in anthropology.
