Cherokee Dance and Drama - Brossura

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith; Broom, Leonard; West Long, Will

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0806125802 ISBN 13: 9780806125800

Casa editrice: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1993

Riassunto

Traditionally, the Cherokees dance to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to legend, the dance songs bequeathed to them by the Stone Coat monster will assuage all the ills of life that the monster brought. Winter dance (including the Booger Dance, which expresses the Cherokees’ anxiety at the white invasion) are to be given only during times of frost, lest they affect the growth of vegetation by attracting cold and death. The summer dance (the Green Corn Ceremony and the Ballplayer’s Dance) are associated with crops and vegetation. Other dances are purely for social intercourse and entertainment or are prompted by specific events in the community.

When it was first published in 1951, this description of the dances of a conservative Eastern Cherokee band was hailed as a scholarly contribution that could not be duplicated, Frank G. Speak and Leonard Broom had achieved the close and sustained interaction that very best ethnological fieldwork requires. Their principal informant, will West Long, upheld the unbroken ceremonial tradition of the Big Cove band, near Cherokee, North Carolina.

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This study explores the traditional dances and ceremonies of the Eastern Cherokees. Many of the dances are no longer practised, so that the book provides a valuable record for researchers into the Cherokee tribal history and folklore. Traditionally, the Cherokees danced to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to legend, the dance songs bequeathed to them by the Stone Coat monster will assuage all the ills of life that the monster brought. Winter dances are to be given only during times of frost, lest they attract the growth of vegetation by attracting cold and death. The summer dances are associated with crops and vegetation. Other dances are purely for social intercourse and entertainment, or are prompted by specific events in the community.

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• Editore: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0806125802
• ISBN 13: 9780806125800
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112