SOUTHERN CHEYENNE WOMEN'S SONGS Giglio NATIVE AMERICAN

SOUTHERN CHEYENNE WOMEN'S SONGS

by Virginia Giglio with a foreword by David P. McAllester

University of Oklahoma Press; about 5.5x8.5 inches, 243 pages. 

1994 Trade Hardback Edition in NEW condition.STILL IN PUBLISHERS SHRINKWRAP!! 

Dustjacket in NEW condition..

Playing, joking, teaching, courting, encouraging, and praying: such everyday
activities and the songs that go with them are the subjects of this unique
 study of contemporary Southern Cheyenne women's music.

Based on Virginia Giglio's respectful but easy, familial relationship with the Indian
 singer-composers, Southern Cheyenne Women's Songs includes an
 overview of Cheyenne culture and history as well as analyses of thirty-two
 songs and their variants: lullabies and children's songs, hand-game songs,
 social songs, and Christian spiritual songs.

In addition to musical and textual transcriptions and translations, the author provides the rich cultural context of the music: the songs' history and the circumstances and backgrounds of the singer-composers, who told her the songs' meanings and the social settings in which they are used and shaped in the ongoing Cheyenne musical
 tradition.

A sampling of closely related Arapaho Indian songs is an appendix.

 The songs collected, transcribed, and recorded in this reverent and insightful
study offer a fascinating entryway into the lives of today's Plains women. Southern Cheyenne Women's Songs, in addition to having value for ethnomusicologists, cultural anthropologists, and other students of Indian  cultural expression, will also be useful in women's studies and to readers with a general interest in things Indian.

B&W photos, drawings, music scores. Appendices, Cheyenne glossary,
bibliography, index.

Thank you and good luck!

Mylar dustjacket cover is available for this book for an additional $1.00 (HIGHLY RECOMMEND COVERS - protects BOTH the jacket and the book!!!).

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