Dossier - Inuit Song

This file contains an essay/article by Beverly Cavanagh titled "Imagery and structure in Eskimo Song Texts". Also a typewritten essay by Beverley Cavanagh titled "A Century And A Half And Music In Pelly Bay" published in 1974 for Folklore Canada by the Conference of Canadian Music Council. Also excerpts from Lure of the North with chapter titles "Shipwreck in the Frozen North" "Among the Igloo Dwellers" and "Whither Our Eskimos?" Excerpt from the journal Science published in 1887. Focused on the article "Poetry and Music of some North American Tribes". Unnamed song with an unknown composer from the book Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point by Roman Pelinski, Luke Suluk, and Lucy Amarook published in 1979 and sung by Alice Selik and Eua Arniak. "Le Chant et la Danse: Moyens d'expression vitale de l'Esquimau" on the subject of Inuit song and dance. A small collection of songs with notes written from a colonist's perspective. "Innusivut Our Way Of Living" by Father Guy Mary-Rousseliere: a combination of photos and music. Excerpt from Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 covering the chapter "Songs of Copper Eskimos" by D. Jenness. Excerpt from The Eskimos of Hudson Bay and Alaska, an album produced by Folkway Records. A small collection of songs titled "The Joy of a Singer/Piuvkaq" "Charm for Hunting Caribou/Inutuk" "Greet we Those/Tuglik". An article by Edmund Carpenter titled "Life as it was" with several poems/songs attached. Songs by Kingmerut and Tegoodligak. Excerpt from The Unwritten Song volume 1 published by the MacMillian Company, and another excerpt from an unknown volume. Excerpt from The White World with the chapters "Superstitions of the Eskimo" and "Eskimo Music". Excerpt from the "Song and Dance" chapter of Eskimo. The chapter was written by Geert Van Den Steenhoven. Essay talking about the Netsilik Inuit, with no bibliographic information available. Also "Tentative Transcriptions and Tentative Translations of some songs recorded in Eskimo Syllabics at Eskimo Point and Ennadai Lake" (Eskimo Point is now known as Arviat). No bibliographic information available for that article. It contains a variety of music and commentary. "The Eskimo Songs of Northwestern Alaska" by Thomas F. Johnston from the music department of the University of Alaska. "Songs of the Canadian Eskimo" by Rudy Wiebe. "Mackenzie River Dance Song" sung by Unalina and Cukaiyoq. Excerpt from Eskimo Poems from Canada and Greenland by Tom Lowenstein published in 1983 by University of Pittsburgh Press; excerpt from Poems of the Inuit by John Colombo published in 1981 published by Oberon Press. Also another small collection of stories and songs including "The Father's Song" "The Old Woman's Song" "Dead Man's Song" "The Mother's Song" "Walrus". Also an excerpt from Intellectual Culture of the Copper Eskimos by Knud Rasmussen published by Gyldendalske Boghandel in 1932. Handwritten notes on songs and techniques. [Originally Titled: Eskimo Song]