Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nations Communities in Northeastern America

by Beverley Diamond

The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the musical instruments of First Nations communities in Northeastern North America, Visions of Sound focusses on interpretations by elders and consultants from Iroquois, Wabanaki, Innu and Anishnabe communities. The authors present these instruments in a theoretically innovative setting organized around such abstract themes as complementarity, twinness and relationship. As sources of metaphor--in both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889202427
• ISBN13: 9780889202429
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"