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Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: POETRY SONGS AND GREAT BASIN CONTEXT (Music in American Life) [Hardcover]

Judith Vander (Author)

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Series: Music in American Life | Publication Date: January 1, 1997

The Ghost Dance, which led to the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, was a widespread Native American religious movement. Judith Vander's path-breaking "Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion" demonstrates that it was not a single religion, but had two branches - the Great Basin branch, a nature religion typified by Shoshone Ghost Dance songs (Naraya), and the Plains branch documented by famed anthropologist James Mooney in 1896. Based on extensive fieldwork with two Shoshone women in Wyoming, Vander's work presents 130 Naraya songs, the largest collection of new Ghost Dance material since Mooney's publication. She thoroughly analyzes the poetic texts, rich imagery, and musical style, demonstrating their high artistic achievement. Connecting the Shoshone Ghost Dance to the ancient religious traditions of the Great Basin, Vander provides the cultural background for understanding the intent of the religion and its songs.

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"Vander's study offers a unique window for peering into the 1890 Ghost Dance, a companion piece to Mooney's classic study." Michael Hittman, author of Wovoka and the Ghost Dance: A Source Book

Language Notes

Text: English

Product Details

Hardcover: 688 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (January 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252022149
ISBN-13: 978-0252022142
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,548,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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JUDY: "Your parents went to the Ghost Dance?" Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ending vocable, mountains game animals, mountain sheep eaters, antelope charming, wai ron, excerpts from song, vocable texts, quaking aspen mountain, excerpt from song, nut mush, stem reduplication, pine nut harvest, inexact repetition, pine nut trees, paired phrases, coming sliding, antelope bulls, father dance, fog rocks, song texts, wood knocking, salty ground, round dance, snowy earth, ghost dance

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Great Basin, Sun Dance, Wind River Shoshone, Northern Paiute, Milky Way, Southern Paiute, Pitches Dorothy Tappay Emily Hill, War Dance, Gladys Hill, Pitches Emily Hill Dorothy Tappay, Northern Shoshone, White-Clay Man, Wood Stick Man, Owens Valley Paiute, Angelina Wagon, Earth Mother, Tom Compton, Western Shoshone, Yellow Hand, Dick Mahwee, Dame Ape, Gosiute Shoshone, John Truhujo, Lemhi Shoshones, Native American

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