Frances Densmore (1867–1957)
Auteur de How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts
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Œuvres de Frances Densmore
Seminole Music (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 161.) (1956) 12 exemplaires
Mandan & Hidatsa Music (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 80.) (1600) 10 exemplaires
Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuni Pueblos (Smithsonian Institution / Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No.… (1957) 10 exemplaires
Music of the Maidu Indians of California: Publications of the Frederick Webb Hodge Anniversary Publication Fund (1958) 8 exemplaires
Chippewa Music: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 45 (1910) 6 exemplaires
Handbook of the collection of musical instruments in the United States National Museum (1971) 4 exemplaires
A Collection of Specimens from the Teton Sioux: Indian Notes and Monographs, V11, No. 3 (2013) 3 exemplaires
Rare 1910 Smithsonian Indians Chippewa Indians Music Ojibwa Anishnaabe Indians [Hardcover] Frances Densmore 2 exemplaires
Mandan & Hidatsa Music (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 80.) by Frances Densmore… 2 exemplaires
Rare Antique PAPAGO MUSIC Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 90 [Hardcover] Densmore, Frances 1 exemplaire
Frances Densmore and American Indian Music: A Memorial Volume Compiled and Edited by Charles Hofmann 1 exemplaire
Southwest Museum Papers 12 Music of Sant 1 exemplaire
Southwest Museum duplication project 1 exemplaire
"Musical Instruments of the Maidu Indians," 1 exemplaire
Smithsonian Report, Washington, 1953 1 exemplaire
Seminole Music 1 exemplaire
A Search for Songs Among the Chitimacha Indians in Louisiana (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology,… (1943) 1 exemplaire
Anthropological papers, No. 37. The belief of the Indian in a connection between song and the supernatural, 1 exemplaire
Anthropological papers No. 28. Choctaw music, 1 exemplaire
Anthropological papers No. 19. A search for songs among the Chitimacha Indians in Louisiana, 1 exemplaire
Magic Animals 1 exemplaire
Poems from Sioux and Chippewa songs 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contributeur — 438 exemplaires
Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures (2006) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 59 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Densmore, Frances Theresa
- Date de naissance
- 1867-05-21
- Date de décès
- 1957-06-05
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Études
- Oberlin College
Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Professions
- ethnobotanist
ethnologist
ethnomusicologist
author - Organisations
- Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
National Research Council - Courte biographie
- Frances Densmore was born in a converted schoolhouse in Red Wing, Minnesota, a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Her father was a civil engineer and owned a foundry. The Densmores had arrived in Red Wing from New York State when Minnesota was still on the frontier. During her childhood, Dakota Sioux people camped on an island opposite the town. Frances grew up in a musical household and later wrote about her sense of wonderment at hearing Native American music and dancing. In 1887, she graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and returned home. She gave piano lessons and played the church organ before moving to Boston in 1889 to study with composer/musicians Carl Baerman and John Knowles Paine. Back home again, Frances began to give lectures about Native American music after a book by ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher, A Study of Omaha Music (1893), rekindled her own interest in the subject. After several tentative starts, in 1905, she began a proper field study by visiting and studying music in a remote Chippewa village near the Canadian border. By 1907, Frances was learning, recording, and transcribing Native American music in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology to help preserve the traditional music before it disappeared. Over a 50-year career, she made 2,500 recordings with peoples of the Chippewa, Mandan, Hidatsa, Sioux, northern Pawnee of Oklahoma, Papago of Arizona, Winnebago and Menominee of Wisconsin, Pueblo of the southwest, Seminole of Florida, and other nations. These recordings are now held in the Library of Congress. Frances frequently contributed articles to the journal American Anthropologist throughout her career. She wrote The Indians and Their Music (1926), and 14 more book-length bulletins for the Smithsonian, each describing the musical practices and repertories of a different Native American group, between 1910 and 1957. These were reprinted as a series by DaCapo Press in 1972.
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- Œuvres
- 53
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 678
- Popularité
- #37,272
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 64