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Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America. By Tara Browner, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2010

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1 Among these anthologies are regionally delimited volumes such as Frisbie, Charlotte, ed., Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1980)Google Scholar; others thematically organized, e.g., Keeling, Richard, ed., Women in North American Indian Music: Six Essays, Special Monograph Series no. 6 (Bloomington, Ind.: Society for Ethnomusicology, 1989)Google Scholar; or Heth's, Charlotte Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social Traditions (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1992)Google Scholar; and still others generically focused, such as Ellis, Clyde et al. , eds., Powwow (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)Google Scholar.

2 An earlier version entitled “Occasions for the Performance of Native Choctaw Music” was previously published in UCLA's Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology (1980): 147–74.

3 Vander, Judith, Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997)Google Scholar.

4 An interview with Margaret Paul that is not specifically focused on song culture has been published in Kulchyski, Peter et al. , eds., In the Words of Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), 336Google Scholar.

5 Browner, Tara, Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Powwow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002)Google Scholar.

6 Hoefnagels, Anna, “The Dynamism and Transformation of ‘Tradition’: Factors Affecting the Development of Powwows in Southwestern Ontario,” Ethnographies 29/1–2 (2007): 107–42Google Scholar; Janice Esther Tulk, “‘Our Strength Is Ourselves’: Identity, Status, and Cultural Revitalization among the Mi'kmaq in Newfoundland,” Ph.D. dissertation, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2008; and Chris Goertzen. “Purposes of North Carolina Powwows,” in Ellis et al., Powwow, 275–302.

7 Samuels, David, Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004)Google Scholar.