Title Ojibwe singers : hymns, grief, and a native culture in motion / Michael D. McNally

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford Unviversity Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) Series Religion in America series Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) Contents Introduction and overview -- PART I: HISTORY: Sacred musics: traditional Obijwe music and Protestant hymnody -- Objibwes, missionaries, and hymn singing, 1828-1867 -- Music as negotiation: uses of hymn singing, 1868-1934 -- PART II: ETHNOGRAPHY: Twentieth-century hymn singing as cultural criticism -- Music as memory: contemporary hymn singing and the politics of death in Native America -- Conclusion: Does hymn singing work! Notes on the logic of ritual practice Summary The Ojibwe of Anishinaabe are a native American people who were taught by 19th-century missionaries to sing evangelical hymns translated into the native language both as a means of worship and as a tool for eradicating the ""indianness"" of the native people. Rather than Americanizing the people, however, these songs have become emblematic of Anishinaabe identity. In this book, Michael McNally uses the Ojiwbe's hymn-singing as a lens to examine how this native American people has creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to negotiate identity and survival within the structures of colonialism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index Notes Print version record Subject Ojibwa Indians -- Religion. Ojibwa Indians -- Cultural assimilation Hymns, Ojibwa -- History and criticism MUSIC -- Religious -- Hymns. Hymns, Ojibwa Ojibwa Indians -- Cultural assimilation Ojibwa Indians -- Religion Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1423760565 9781423760566 9786610473236 6610473234

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