Shootingway ceremony – culture? |
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Shootingway ceremony – complete media? |
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Shootingway ceremony – context? |
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It’s a ceremony where a singer helps cure a patient of a snakebite by appealing to the mana of the holy people. |
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Shootingway ceremony – musical features? |
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low melodic contour, sharply changing rhythmic phrase lengths, through-composed |
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Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – culture? |
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Amerindian Sioux/Great Plains |
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Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – complete media? |
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Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – context? |
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It’s a social dance for gatherings. There aren’t lyrics, just vocables so that a multitude of different tribes could comfortably join in. It’s community-building. |
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Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – musical features? |
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falling melodic contour, high falsetto, tense voices, steady drum beat, call and response, clear strophic form |
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