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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
To Impersonate the Supernatural: Music and Ceremony of the Bella Bella/Heiltsuk Indians of British Columbia
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe two-part thesis of this study is: (1) that the Bella Bella or Heiltsuk Indians of British Columbia were the most significant musical and ceremonial group on the Northwest Coast during the nineteenth century, and (2) that there are strong relationships between Heiltsuk musical patterning and other systems of relationships in Heiltsuk culture. The study is organized into four main parts: The Ethnomusicological and Historical Background, The Song Types and their Contexts, The Structure of Heiltsuk Music, and Conclusions and Appendices.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Musicology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Kolstee, Anton Frederik
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8823174
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70863