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Ants and Orioles : showing the art of Pima poetry / Donald Bahr, Lloyd Paul, Vincent Joseph.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: North American Indian (Other) Publication details: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585129541
  • 9780585129549
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ants and Orioles.DDC classification:
  • 897/.45 21
LOC classification:
  • PM2174.A2 B34 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 18.92
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Paul Zolbrod -- pt. 1. Ant Songs. Ch. 1. Background: Working on the Texts, The History of Salt River, and Pima Mythology. Ch. 2. The Texts. Ch. 3. Myth and Sing: Principles of the Art. Ch. 4. The Sing Interpreted -- pt. 2. Oriole Songs. Ch. 5. Oriole Lessons. Ch. 6. The Sing Quietly. Ch. 7. The Sing Loudly. Ch. 8. Conclusion: On Criticism. App. Three Papago Airplane Songs and the Dreaming of Ancientness.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: During Pima social dances, men and women join hands and stomp throughout the night to the rhythm of Ant songs and Oriole songs performed by specialized singers. While these songs provide the substance of Native American poetry, until now no one has asked how these songs - and others - form a Native American poetic tradition, nor has anyone asked what makes some of these poems good. Donald Bahr spent more than twenty years working with Pima singers in southern Arizona investigating these questions. Ants and Orioles presents translations of two singers' performances, "beautiful, provocative, condensed, disciplined tellings of things" learned from spirit-persons in dreams. A subtle yet bold endeavor, Ants and Orioles will appeal to anyone interested in poetry or modes of textuality in other world cultures.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198) and index.

Foreword / Paul Zolbrod -- pt. 1. Ant Songs. Ch. 1. Background: Working on the Texts, The History of Salt River, and Pima Mythology. Ch. 2. The Texts. Ch. 3. Myth and Sing: Principles of the Art. Ch. 4. The Sing Interpreted -- pt. 2. Oriole Songs. Ch. 5. Oriole Lessons. Ch. 6. The Sing Quietly. Ch. 7. The Sing Loudly. Ch. 8. Conclusion: On Criticism. App. Three Papago Airplane Songs and the Dreaming of Ancientness.

During Pima social dances, men and women join hands and stomp throughout the night to the rhythm of Ant songs and Oriole songs performed by specialized singers. While these songs provide the substance of Native American poetry, until now no one has asked how these songs - and others - form a Native American poetic tradition, nor has anyone asked what makes some of these poems good. Donald Bahr spent more than twenty years working with Pima singers in southern Arizona investigating these questions. Ants and Orioles presents translations of two singers' performances, "beautiful, provocative, condensed, disciplined tellings of things" learned from spirit-persons in dreams. A subtle yet bold endeavor, Ants and Orioles will appeal to anyone interested in poetry or modes of textuality in other world cultures.

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