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| 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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