Shootingway ceremony – culture?
Navajo Amerindian
Shootingway ceremony – complete media?
male voices, rattle
Shootingway ceremony – context?
It’s a ceremony where a singer helps cure a patient of a snakebite by appealing to the mana of the holy people.
Shootingway ceremony – musical features?
low melodic contour, sharply changing rhythmic phrase lengths, through-composed
Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – culture?
Amerindian Sioux/Great Plains
Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – complete media?
male voices, large drum
Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – context?
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.
Grass Dance, Pan Indian powwow style – musical features?
falling melodic contour, high falsetto, tense voices, steady drum beat, call and response, clear strophic form