Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nations Communities in Northeastern America
By Unknown Author.
Description
The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the musical instruments of First Nations communities in Northeastern North America, Visions of Sound focusses on interpretations by elders and consultants from Iroquois, Wabanaki, Innu and Anishnabe communities. The authors present these instruments in a theoretically innovative setting organized around such abstract themes as complementarity, twinness and relationship. As sources of metaphor—in both sound and image—instruments are interpreted within a framework that regards meaning as “emergent” and that challenges ...
ISBN(s)
0889202427, 9780889202429
