Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of dep...

• Foreword
• Preface
• CD Track List
• 1. Traditions of Knowledge: Indigenous Knowledge and the Western Music School
• Names Matter!
• Writing this Book as an Encounter
• Traditional Ways of Knowing
• Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
• The Great Texts of Native American Communities as TIK?
• LanguageOral Transmissionand Worldview
• Place and Attention to the Environment
• The Inseparability of Traditional Indigenous KnowledgeOral Transmissionand Experience
• Relationality
• What Eth...