Intertribal Native American Music in the United States

Over time many Native American tribes have developed a shared musical culture that is prominently audible on local national and international stages. In <em>Intertribal Native American Music in the United States</em> ethnomusicologist and GRAMMY� Award-winning musician Dr. John-Carlos Perea shows how traditional sounds such as pow-wow and Native American flute songs have developed in tandem with increasingly recognizable forms like Native jazz and rock. Perea provides an in-depth look at how Northern and Southern Plains pow-wow practices represent a singular performance encompassing disparate stories and sounds. The result is the only brief text that makes clear the interconnectedness of Native American music through a dynamic and thorough analysis of how it began and where it is headed. <p/><em>Intertribal Native American Music in the United States</em> is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with <em>Thinking Musically</em> the core book in the Global Music Series. <em>Thinking Musically</em> incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present.<br>