Lincoln London : University of Nebraska Press, [2015];©2015
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Traveling with Frances Densmore / Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick Patterson — She always said, I heard an Indian drum Becoming two white buffalo woman / Michelle Wick Patterson — By train, by boat, by model T Getting the Depression blues / Joan M. Jensen — Cut, paste, delete, preserve / Michelle Wick Patterson — Gone but not quite forgotten / Joan M. Jensen — Miss Densmore meets the Ojibwes: Frances Densmore’s ethnomusicology studies among the Grand Portage Ojibwes in 1905 / Nancy L. Woolworth — Songs of healing: Music therapy of Native America, a medical ethnomusicology study / Stephanie Thorne — Familiar face: Densmore’s Minnesota photographs / Bruce White — Collection with a mission: Frances Densmore’s Chippewa artifacts / Carolyn Gilman — An archival dilemma: The Densmore cylinder recording speeds / Judith Gray — Frances Densmore’s Chippewa music / Thomas J. Vennum — Conclusion: A picture is worth deconstructing / Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick Patterson.
• Over the first half of the twentieth century, scientist and scholar Frances Densmore (1867-1957) visited thirty-five Native American tribes, recorded more than twenty-five hundred songs, amassed hundreds of artifacts and Native-crafted objects, and transcribed information about Native cultures. Her visits to indigenous groups included meetings with the Ojibwes, Lakotas, Dakotas, Northern Utes, Ho-chunks, Seminoles, and Makahs. A New Woman and a self-trained anthropologist, she not only influenced government attitudes toward indigenous cultures but also helped mold the field of anthropology. Densmore remains an intriguing historical figure. Although researchers use her vast collections at the Smithsonian and Minnesota Historical Society, as well as her many publications, some scholars critique her methods of salvage anthropology and concepts of the vanishing Native American. Through narrative descriptions of her life paired with critical essays about her work, this book is a guide for understanding how Densmore formed her collections and the lasting importance they have had for researchers in a variety of fields.

Subjects:

• Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957.
• Ethnomusicologists — United States — Biography.
• Ethnomusicology — United States.
• Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957 — Ethnomusicological collections.
• Indians of North America — Music — History and criticism.
• Indians of North America — Material culture — Collectors and collecting.
• Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957. fast (OCoLC)fst00037444
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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