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Northern Haida Songs
Wendy Bross Stuart, John Enrico,
Cloth: 1996, xiv, 519, CIP.LC 96-4211,0-8032-1816-8
Studies in the Anthropology
of North American Indians Series
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This book describes the musical culture
of the Northern Haida Indians, who speak two closely
related dialects. One dialect group lives on Graham
Island, British Columbia, the other on Prince of Wales
Island, Alaska. The recordings on which the book is
based were compiled over a period of more than a decade
from a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources.
Representing the entire range of the Haida musical tradition
-a tradition that nearly died out and is currently being
revived- this volume documents its changes over more
than a century. Part 1 is a lengthy ethnographic description
of musical genres that situates Haida music in the context
of the Northwest Coast. Part 2 presents 128 songs, fully
transcribed and analyzed and representing some twenty
types, ranging from traditional genres such as peace-making
and mourning songs to songs of personal expression composed
during the modern period. Part 3 is a detailed musical
and linguistic analysis of the songs presented in the
second part. The integration of descriptions of these
two facets of song -music and language- is the particular
goal of the book. The volume is a substantive contribution
to the ethnomusicology of native North America and will
be of special interest to scholars concerned with vocables
in Native American music. John Enrico has been engaged
in linguistic research on the Haida language since 1975.
His publications include The Lexical Phonology of Masset
Haida and articles on aspects of Haida grammar. Wendy
Bross Stuart's first ethnomusicological publication
was Gambling Music of the Coast Salish Indians. In 1980
she began collaborating with John Enrico in the transcription
and analysis of Haida songs.
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