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Sto caricando le informazioni... Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing (American Indian Lives Series) (originale 1994; edizione 1996)di Severt Young Bear, R. D. Theisz
Informazioni sull'operaStanding in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing di Severt Young Bear (1994)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Story about finding the modern Lakota identity through oral tradition, powwows, humor, leadership and music. Interesting mix of autobiography, memoirs, and Lakota philosophy. Young Bear was born in 1934, and has seen the loss of traditional way of living and a rebirth of interest in those values. His father was a singer, which started Young Bear on that path. He writes thoughtfully about those changes, and about the teachings that helped him in his life.
This fruitful collaboration by Young Bear and Theisz, continuing the exploration of Lakota male roles and identity, stands as a contemporary exemplification of what it means to grow up and understand life as a Lakota male. Its special intention is to reach out to those of us who need a hand to come in from the dark, and from unconscious ways of living, and to encourage us to stand in the light -- that place in the center of the circle where the people gather who know how to do things for the right reasons and who perpetuate the life of the community. Part autobiography, part ethnography, and part treatise on history and identity - the book weaves these themes together via Young Bear's extended meditation on the connectedness between life and music. In the process, the reader is given an unparalleled view of "a Lakota way of seeing." ...we hear a style as clear as the South Dakota night itself, candid and frank, no pretensions or sentimentality. Appartiene alle Serie
For most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light--in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing and drumming group, he also stood, figuratively, in the light of understanding the cherished Lakota heritage. Young Bear's own life in Brotherhood Community, Porcupine District of the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, is the linchpin of this narrative, which ranges across the landscape of Dakota culture, from the significance of names to the search for modern Lakota identity, from Lakota oral traditions to powwows and giveaways, from child-rearing practices to humor and leadership. "Music is at the center of Lakota life," says Young Bear; he describes in rich detail the origins and varieties of Lakota song and dance. A descendant of chiefs and of Wounded Knee survivors, he recounts his role in Wounded Knee II 1973 and his association with the AIM Song. A highly respected musician, teacher, and elder, Severt Young Bear performed with the Porcupine Singers throughout North America, taught at Oglala Lakota College, and served on the Oglala Sioux tribal council. He was music and dance consultant for the films Dances with Wolves and Thunder Heart. This book is the fruit of his long friendship and collaboration with R. D. Theisz, a fellow Porcupine Singer and professor of communications and education at Black Hills State University. Says Theisz, "We're trying to write this book so that Lakota people and our nonIndian friends can find better understanding . . . so that those people waiting in the dark--perhaps we have a little of them in all of us--can approach the light." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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