Publisher's Synopsis
""A Study of Omaha Indian Music"" is a comprehensive book written by Alice C. Fletcher that explores the musical traditions of the Omaha Native American tribe. The book provides a detailed analysis of the songs, dances, and musical instruments used by the Omaha people, as well as their cultural significance and historical context. Fletcher draws on her extensive fieldwork and research to document the various musical genres of the Omaha tribe, including ceremonial, social, and personal songs. The book also includes transcriptions of several traditional Omaha songs, as well as detailed descriptions of the musical notation and performance techniques used. Overall, ""A Study of Omaha Indian Music"" is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Native American music and culture, as well as ethnomusicology and anthropology.1893. In many respects, Alice Fletcher was a typical Victorian intellectual, articulate, energetic, and active in a variety of social movements and women's organizations. She began her studies of American Indian life under the private tutelage of Frederick W. Putnam, director of Harvard University's Peabody Museum. Fletcher's long association with the Omaha people began at an 1880 Boston literary gathering with an introduction to Francis and Susette La Flesche, the son and daughter of Omaha chief Joseph La Flesche. Prior to this meeting, her anthropology lectures were primarily based on library research and a small amount of archaeological fieldwork. Fletcher decided she wanted to observe Indian culture directly and made arrangements to visit the Omaha reservation the following year. Over the next three decades, she traveled extensively throughout the West, studying not only Omaha traditions but those of the Pawnee, Sioux, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Oto, Osage, Nez Perce, Ponca, and Winnebago as well, but she is best known for her work on Omaha music and culture.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
