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Ojibwe singers : hymns, grief, and a native culture in motion

Title
Ojibwe singers : hymns, grief, and a native culture in motion / Michael D. McNally.
Author
McNally, Michael D.
Publication
New York : Oxford Unviversity Press, [2000], ©2000.

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xiv, 248 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
  • "In this study, Michael McNally shows how the Ojibwe people of northern Minnesota and the Great Lakes region took missionary Christianity and remade it in their own religious idiom through the ritualized singing of missionary hymns.".
  • "Ojibwe Singers takes hymn singing as a sharply focused lens through which to view culture in motion. McNally shows how Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to make room for survival, integrity, and a distinctive cultural identity within the tight confines of colonialism.
  • Grounded in the author's archival research and two years of fieldwork in Minnesota, this book traces the historical development of ritualized singing and shows how the practice has been put to different uses at various moments in Ojibwe history."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Religion in America series
Uniform Title
Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Subject
  • Ojibwa Indians > Religion
  • Ojibwa Indians > Cultural assimilation
  • Hymns, Ojibwa > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-240) and index.
Contents
Pt. I. History. 1. Sacred Musics: Traditional Ojibwe Music and Protestant Hymnody. 2. Ojibwes, Missionaries, and Hymn Singing, 1828-1867. 3. Music as Negotiation: Uses of Hymn Singing, 1868-1934 -- Pt. II. Ethnography. 4. Twentieth-Century Hymn Singing as Cultural Criticism. 5. Music as Memory: Contemporary Hymn Singing and the Politics of Death in Native America. Conclusion: Does Hymn Singing Work? Notes on the Logic of Ritual Practice.
ISBN
0195134648 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
99039993
OCLC
  • 43458198
  • ocm43458198
  • SCSB-3958296
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries