To Win the Indian Heart - Music at Chemawa Indian School

Informationen zum Autor Melissa D. Parkhurst is an instructor of music at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, USA, where she teaches courses on World Music and Music History. She earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her current research interests include First Nations music in the Pacific Northwest, how music promotes personal and community resilience, and the role of music in cultural revitalization Klappentext Since 1879, Indian children from all regions of the US have entered federal boarding schools. Chemawa Indian School in western Oregon is an emblem of a system that has intimately impacted countless lives and communities. Melissa Parkhurst records the history of the school’s musical life, exploring the crucial role music was meant to play in the total transformation of Indian children, and the cultural recovery and resiliency it often inspired instead. Zusammenfassung To Win the Indian Heart: Music At Chemawa Indian School is an exploration of the crucial role music played at the longest-operating federal boarding school for Indian children--both as a tool of assimilation and resilience.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Melissa Parkhurst, Melissa D. Parkhurst
• Editore: The University of Arizona Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780870717383
• ISBN: 978-0-87071-738-3
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione