Cherokee Dance and Drama
Title | Cherokee Dance and Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Gouldsmith Speck |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780806125800 |
Traditionally, the Cherokees dance to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to legend, the dance songs bequeathed to them by the Stone Coat monster will assuage all the ills of life that the monster brought. Winter dance (including the Booger Dance, which expresses the Cherokees’ anxiety at the white invasion) are to be given only during times of frost, lest they affect the growth of vegetation by attracting cold and death. The summer dance (the Green Corn Ceremony and the Ballplayer’s Dance) are associated with crops and vegetation. Other dances are purely for social intercourse and entertainment or are prompted by specific events in the community. When it was first published in 1951, this description of the dances of a conservative Eastern Cherokee band was hailed as a scholarly contribution that could not be duplicated, Frank G. Speak and Leonard Broom had achieved the close and sustained interaction that very best ethnological fieldwork requires. Their principal informant, will West Long, upheld the unbroken ceremonial tradition of the Big Cove band, near Cherokee, North Carolina.
Cherokee Dance and Drama. By F.G. Speck and L. Broom. In Collaboration with Will West Long. [With Plates.].
Title | Cherokee Dance and Drama. By F.G. Speck and L. Broom. In Collaboration with Will West Long. [With Plates.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Gouldsmith SPECK (and BROOM (Leonard)) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1951 |
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Cherokee Dance and Drama, by Frank G. Speck and Leonard Broom in Collaboration with Will West Long
Title | Cherokee Dance and Drama, by Frank G. Speck and Leonard Broom in Collaboration with Will West Long PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Gouldsmith Speck |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Cherokee Indians |
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Cherokee Dance and Drama. F. G. Speck & Leonard Broom in Collabration with Will West Long
Title | Cherokee Dance and Drama. F. G. Speck & Leonard Broom in Collabration with Will West Long PDF eBook |
Author | Frank G. Speck |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1951 |
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Cherokee Dance
Title | Cherokee Dance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cherokee Publications |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Cherokee ceremonial dances and costumes are described, explained, and illustrated in full color in this beautiful how-to-do book. With a practical and usable approach using many illustrations and easy-to-follow sketches.
An Eliadean Interpretation of Frank G. Speck's Account of the Cherokee Booger Dance
Title | An Eliadean Interpretation of Frank G. Speck's Account of the Cherokee Booger Dance PDF eBook |
Author | William Douglas Powers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
This study considers the Cherokee Booger Dance as a purely religious phenomenon by reinterpreting anthropologist Frank G. Speck's observations of a performance held by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians through the lens of Mircea Eliade's theory of religion.
Unto These Hills
Title | Unto These Hills PDF eBook |
Author | Kermit Hunter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780807868751 |
Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee