North American Indigenous song, the sacred and the senses
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.36490Keywords:
music, song, hearing, 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 – and it explores music’s capacity for mediating sacred presences and processes.
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