Lorna Mcdaniel

Biographic Data

ID106586
NAMELorna Mcdaniel
GIVEN NAMESLorna
FAMILY NAMEMcdaniel
SIGNATUREMCDANIEL L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX2

  • Caribbean Voyage: The 1962 Field Recordings. 1997-2002

    Gage Averill, Alan Lomax et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2003

  • Musical Thoughts on Unresolved Questions and Recent Findings in Big Drum Research

    Lorna McdanielARTICLEBlack Music Research Journal2002References: 1

    I traveled to Carriacou, Grenada, immediately after reading Paule Marshall's novel, Praisesong for the Widow (1983). The novel introduced me to an island I had never heard of and to a society mysteriously unified in memorializing its past. After a first trip, I came to solidify my graduate school project of comparing stylistic musical types and eras of the various musics' on Carriacou. But when I realized the depth and historicity flowing from th…

  • Caribbean Voyage. The 1962 Field Recordings

    Dominique Cyrille, Alan Lomax et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2001

  • The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight

    D Glazier, Stephen D Glazier et al.ARTICLELatin American Music Review2000

  • The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight

    Rebecca S Miller, Lorna McdanielARTICLEEthnomusicology2000

  • The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight

    Donald R Hill, Lorna McdanielARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1999

    The Big Drum is the lively ancient dance rite of the small island of Carriacou, Grenada. This book introduces 129 of the ceremonial song texts and dances that call and entertain the ancestors who are central to Carriacou religious experience. McDaniel, who lived in Carriacou at the time of the 1983 invasion of Grenada, frequently observed Big Drum dances and interviewed many old heads (wise people) for this book. She concludes it with an analysis…

  • "Memory Spirituals of the Ex-Slave American Soldiers in Trinidad's "Company Villages

    Lorna McdanielARTICLEBlack Music Research Journal1994

  • Memory Spirituals of the Liberated American Soldiers in Trinidad's “Company Villages”

    Lorna McdanielARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1994

    Des Afro-americains ont fui l'esclavage et avec l'aide des Britanniques se sont installes a la Trinite. Apres un rappel historique, l'A. montre le role de l'Eglise baptiste et retranscrit les dix chants (negro spirituals) de la liste de A. Pearse des annees 1950

  • A Page on Turtle Relations

    Lorna McdanielARTICLEEthnomusicology1991

    There is, I believe, no avoiding ethical ambiguity any more. If, because I am a woman, I escape the white male stigma, I am still on-the-hook for being a member of a dominant ethnicity. If I were a black female, I could still be accused of being a member of the larger dominating society, having access to research funds, and even more importantly, having the training to use the discourse of power, the authorial voice. Declining guilt, perhaps, but…

  • The flying Africans: Extent and strength of the myth in the Americas

    Open AccessLorna McdanielARTICLENew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…1990Cited by: 5

    First paragraph]The theme of human aerial flight permeates the mythology of Black America. Examples of the metaphor are found in major musical genres, myths and poetry in Black cultures that span the Caribbean and southern North America, embracing generations to testify to the depth of the cosmological and conscious projection of systems of flight escape and homeland return. While the theme of human flight does not occur in any significant propor…

  • The Stone Feast and Big Drum of Carriacou

    Lorna McdanielARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1985Cited by: 2

  • Tiv Song

    Lorna Mcdaniel, Charles KeilARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1979

  • An Igbo Second Burial

    Lorna McdanielARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1978Cited by: 1