Thomas F Johnston
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas F Johnston |
| PRENOMES | Thomas F |
| SOBRENOME | Johnston |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSTON T F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mateso (Suffering)
The Face of Dance
Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community
Features important information about Dene community life in the 1960s during the crucial period immediately following the move from bush to town. Deals extensively with the traditional economy, the structure of Dene Kinship, its role in social organization, and the role of the drum dance in the social life of the community under rapidly-changing circumstances
Stan Getz
Songs in Minto Life
Children's music of the Shangana-Tsonga
Among the Shangana-Tsonga of the Northern Transvaal and Mozambique (hereafter referred to as the Tsonga), childrenâ€TMs music occurs seasonally within a broad range of social contexts, the separate boundaries of which are not always sharply defined. They include winter fireside storytelling, where the audience of children is assigned a recurring stereotyped response, and where the song-within-the-story often possesses magical power which overcome…
The Last Kings of Thule, by Jean Malaurie
manager, employee of Canadian Airways, and government administrator. His wife, Barbara, has performed the final editing of her husband's memoirs and seen them through press
La musique des Inuit du Caribou
Levirate Practices of the Shangana-Tsonga, Seen through Widows' Ritual Songs
THE approximately 2,000,000 Shangana-Tsonga are a Bantu-speaking people of Mozambique and the Northern Transvaal, who keep cattle, grow maize, worship ancestor spirits, and practice polygamy. The region of habitation is somewhat arid; nutrition is poor and subtropical diseases are common. Average age at death for males is considerably lower than that for females. A contributing factor to this is the system of migrant labour which, to all intents …
Bella Coola Indian Music
Etude des chants Bella Coola conserves sur bande magnetique ou cylindre de cire: contexte de leur execution (musique, instruments, executants), types de composition, caracteristiques structurales de la musique, 75 transcriptions musicales originales de chants rituels et non-rituels
General and Theoretical
The Effects of Acculturation on Eskimo Music of Cumberland Peninsular
Eskimo Music by Region
Alaskan Eskimo Music and Dance
Tsonga Rain Songs
THE Tsonga number about 1,200,000, and live in an arid area of the Northern Transvaal and Mozambique, where rain can mean the difference between adequate food and starvation. The songs which they sing strongly reflect their needs and their anxieties. The texts of Tsonga rain songs emphasize the lightning bird of misfortune, black millipedes as a sign of forthcoming rain, the sacrifice of black sheep to bring rain, and the sound of rain (tho-tho-t…
Eskimo Art
The Eskimo Storyteller
The Eskimo Songs of Northwestern Alaska
The findings are presented of ethnomusicological research in several Eskimo communities of northwestern Alaska where traditional music is still popular. In some of these communities, particularly at Point Hope, musical ceremonialism is considerable. There are three main classes of songs in use: game songs, songs-within-stories and dance songs. Song styles and dance styles differ from those of the Eskimo communities of southwestern Alaska, reflect…
Ethnology
The Social Background of Eskimo Music in Northwest Alaska
strongly. It is frequently performed at inter-village inviting-ins, whaling feasts, and walrus festivals. There are 11,000 Inupiaq people in Alaska, 6,000 of whom still speak the language. The main villages are Wales, Shishmaref, Kotzebue, Kivalina, Point Hope, Wainwright, and Barrow, all of which feature group mimetic dance, ensemble drumming, dance songs, game songs, and songs-within-stories. Song style and dance style differ slightly from that…
Alaskan Eskimo Dance in Cultural Context
This is a preliminary study of Alaskan Eskimo dance, the first findings of a three-year comprehensive survey of Alaskan Eskimo and Indian musical systems, funded by the National Science Foundation. The study is primarily synchronic; limited diachronic comparison may be made by consulting a recent study of nineteenth century Alaskan Eskimo dance (Johnston 1974a: 17–26). The populations investigated are the Inupiaq-speakers of Northwest Alaska, num…
Classification within the Tsonga Musical System
Folklore Emphasis among Immigrant Tsonga
Eskimo Boyhood
Eskimo Boyhood
Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community
Features important information about Dene community life in the 1960s during the crucial period immediately following the move from bush to town. Deals extensively with the traditional economy, the structure of Dene Kinship, its role in social organization, and the role of the drum dance in the social life of the community under rapidly-changing circumstances
Alaskan Eskimo Music and Dance
Datura fastuosa
The Social Background of Eskimo Music in Northwest Alaska
strongly. It is frequently performed at inter-village inviting-ins, whaling feasts, and walrus festivals. There are 11,000 Inupiaq people in Alaska, 6,000 of whom still speak the language. The main villages are Wales, Shishmaref, Kotzebue, Kivalina, Point Hope, Wainwright, and Barrow, all of which feature group mimetic dance, ensemble drumming, dance songs, game songs, and songs-within-stories. Song style and dance style differ slightly from that…
Alaskan Eskimo Dance in Cultural Context
This is a preliminary study of Alaskan Eskimo dance, the first findings of a three-year comprehensive survey of Alaskan Eskimo and Indian musical systems, funded by the National Science Foundation. The study is primarily synchronic; limited diachronic comparison may be made by consulting a recent study of nineteenth century Alaskan Eskimo dance (Johnston 1974a: 17–26). The populations investigated are the Inupiaq-speakers of Northwest Alaska, num…
Eskimo Music
Power and Prestige Through Music in Tsongaland
This paper outlines the role of communal music in the social institutions of the Tsonga of Mozambique and the Northern Transvaal, and how it serves to enhance the power and prestige of the chiefs controlling these institutions. It is shown how musical performances mirror social stratification, and how various musical practices such as the visiting team-dancing at neighboring courts reflects the occupational roles, rivalries, and social allegiance…
Musical Instruments and Practices of the Tsonga Beer-Drink
This article examines the musical and social functions of various instru ments found in the context of the Shangana-Tsonga social beer-drink in Mozambique and the Northern Transvaal. In addition to the usual beaten/ blown distinctions (which are primarily etic), important emic distinctions are noted, such as secular/sacred, privately-owned/communally-owned, professionally-playedlnonprofessionally-played, and ensemble-oriented/solo oriented
Datura fastuosa
The Cultural Role of Tsonga Beer-Drink Music
Of seven distinct bodies of vocal music and one body of instrumental music recognized and separately classified by the Tsonga of Mozambique and the Northern Transvaal, beer-drink music is the most often performed and comprises about 40% of the total folksong repertoire of about five hundred items (Figure 1). The other musical styles are exorcism music, girls’ initiation music, children's songs, solo instrumental music, boys’ drumming school music…
Musical Instruments and Practices of the Tsonga Beer-Drink
This article examines the musical and social functions of various instru ments found in the context of the Shangana-Tsonga social beer-drink in Mozambique and the Northern Transvaal. In addition to the usual beaten/ blown distinctions (which are primarily etic), important emic distinctions are noted, such as secular/sacred, privately-owned/communally-owned, professionally-playedlnonprofessionally-played, and ensemble-oriented/solo oriented
Tsonga Children's Folksongs
THE TSONGA ARE A BANTU-SPEAKING PEOPLE numbering about 1,200,000 in Mozambique and 700,000 in the Northern Transvaal. They distinguish themselves from the Tonga of Zambia and Rhodesia, and from the Tonga of the Inhambane area, by the use of a prefix; thus, Shangana-Tsonga, Soshangane being the name of a celebrated nineteenth-century Tsonga warlord, and Tsonga meaning people of the east. Despite many cultural similarities between the Tsonga and th…
Power and Prestige Through Music in Tsongaland
This paper outlines the role of communal music in the social institutions of the Tsonga of Mozambique and the Northern Transvaal, and how it serves to enhance the power and prestige of the chiefs controlling these institutions. It is shown how musical performances mirror social stratification, and how various musical practices such as the visiting team-dancing at neighboring courts reflects the occupational roles, rivalries, and social allegiance…
A Tsonga Initiation
(TOP) 1. A COURT MUSICIAN PLAYS A XIZAMBI FRICTION BOW AT THE MEETING OF THE CHIEF'S COUNCIL HELD TO CONFIRM THE WOMEN'S DECISION TO BEGIN THE KHOMBA. (BOTTOM) 2. A GIRL INITIATE PLAYS A XIPENDANA BRACED BOW ON HER WAY TO THE ASSEMBLY POINT. The Tsonga are a Bantu-speaking people of southeastern Africa, numbering about 1,200,000 in Mozambique and 700,000 in the Northern Transvaal. They are famous among neighboring tribes for the emphasis they pla…
Communication with the fertility God via hallucinogens in Tsongaland
Secret Initiation Songs of the Shangana-Tsonga Circumcision Rite
ous African groups. The group referred here are Shangana-Tsonga, who adopted name of an ancient chieftain as a distinguishing prefix. They number about 1,200,000 in Mozambique and 700,000 in Transvaal. From 19681970 they were subject of a folkloristic study I conducted under a grant from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The Tsonga mzrhundzu circumcision rite is a mandatory initiation into manhood, and severe hazing that accomp…
The Role of Music in Shangana-Tsonga Social Institutions
Alaskan Eskimo Dance in Cultural Context
This is a preliminary study of Alaskan Eskimo dance, the first findings of a three-year comprehensive survey of Alaskan Eskimo and Indian musical systems, funded by the National Science Foundation. The study is primarily synchronic; limited diachronic comparison may be made by consulting a recent study of nineteenth century Alaskan Eskimo dance (Johnston 1974a: 17–26). The populations investigated are the Inupiaq-speakers of Northwest Alaska, num…
Classification within the Tsonga Musical System
Folklore Emphasis among Immigrant Tsonga
Eskimo Boyhood
Eskimo Boyhood
African Lyric Poetry in Reference to the Ambo Traditional Poemsongs
Eskimo Music
The Eskimo Songs of Northwestern Alaska
The findings are presented of ethnomusicological research in several Eskimo communities of northwestern Alaska where traditional music is still popular. In some of these communities, particularly at Point Hope, musical ceremonialism is considerable. There are three main classes of songs in use: game songs, songs-within-stories and dance songs. Song styles and dance styles differ from those of the Eskimo communities of southwestern Alaska, reflect…
Ethnology
The Social Background of Eskimo Music in Northwest Alaska
strongly. It is frequently performed at inter-village inviting-ins, whaling feasts, and walrus festivals. There are 11,000 Inupiaq people in Alaska, 6,000 of whom still speak the language. The main villages are Wales, Shishmaref, Kotzebue, Kivalina, Point Hope, Wainwright, and Barrow, all of which feature group mimetic dance, ensemble drumming, dance songs, game songs, and songs-within-stories. Song style and dance style differ slightly from that…
The Eskimo Storyteller
Tsonga Rain Songs
THE Tsonga number about 1,200,000, and live in an arid area of the Northern Transvaal and Mozambique, where rain can mean the difference between adequate food and starvation. The songs which they sing strongly reflect their needs and their anxieties. The texts of Tsonga rain songs emphasize the lightning bird of misfortune, black millipedes as a sign of forthcoming rain, the sacrifice of black sheep to bring rain, and the sound of rain (tho-tho-t…
Eskimo Art
The Effects of Acculturation on Eskimo Music of Cumberland Peninsular
Eskimo Music by Region
Alaskan Eskimo Music and Dance
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