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Book: Sensual Religion

Chapter: 8. North American Indigenous Song, the Sacred and the Senses

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.34245

Blurb:

How does music shape the experience of the sacred? This chapter looks at two genres of North American Indigenous singing – drum song performed at powwows, and gospel singing associated with funerary wakes – in exploring how music mediates sacred presences and process.

Chapter Contributors

  • Byron Dueck (b.dueck@open.ac.uk - bdueck) 'The Open University'