North American Indigenous Song, the Sacred and the Senses
Keywords:
Hearing, music, song, North American Indigenous peoples, powwow, funerary ritualAbstract
How does music shape the experience of the sacred? This chapter looks at two genres of North American Indigenous singing – drum song performed at powwows, and gospel singing associated with funerary wakes – in exploring how music mediates sacred presences and process.
Published
2018-09-04
