Songprints explores the musical lives of Native American women as they navigate a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shoshone of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. Judith Vander captures the distinct personalities of five generations of Shoshone women as they describe their thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward their music. Ranging in age from seventy to twenty, the women provide a unique historical perspective on twentieth-century Wind River Shoshone life. In addition to documenting these oral ...
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Songprints explores the musical lives of Native American women as they navigate a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shoshone of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. Judith Vander captures the distinct personalities of five generations of Shoshone women as they describe their thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward their music. Ranging in age from seventy to twenty, the women provide a unique historical perspective on twentieth-century Wind River Shoshone life. In addition to documenting these oral histories, Vander transcribes and analyzes seventy-five songs that the women sing--a microcosm of Northern Plains Indian music. As she shows, each woman possesses her own songprint, a repertoire distinctive to her culture, age, and personality, as unique in its configuration as a fingerprint or footprint. Vander places the women's song repertoires in the context of Shoshone social and religious ceremonies as she offers insights into the rise of the Native American Church, the emergence and popularity of the contemporary powwow, and the expanding role of women.
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VG+ in VG+ jacket. Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards and spine with shiny silver foil lettering on the spine. Book has light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tip of the upper front outside corner. Whtie endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. There's a faint wave to the lower edge of the pages from the free front endpaper through page xviii of the Introduction. Fair amount of foxing to the upper edge of the textblock, but pages are otherwise clean, white and crisp. 317 pages. Illustrated with reproduced sheet music and photographs. Dust Jacket-has light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine. Series of light brown spots across the inside of the jacket, but not visible on the exterior. Has seen better days, but still tight, reasonably clean, and with a nice overall presentation.
