
Contents
1 Sacred Musics: Traditional Ojibwe Music and Protestant Hymnody
Get access-
Published:September 2000
Cite
Abstract
The tradition of Ojibwe hymn singing emerged in the middle third of the nineteenth century from the conjunction of evangelical hymns, Anishinaabe attitudes toward music, and the social circumstances that set the terms of symbolic exchange. To understand how hymns came into the musical life of Ojibwe communities, it is important to first illustrate the place of music generally in early-nineteenth-century Ojibwe culture and then to compare that with the place of hymnody in the evangelical culture that missionaries brought to the field. Neither Ojibwe nor evangelical culture came to this encounter as static wholes; both had been changing against the historical backdrop in their own right long before the missionary encounter. Notwithstanding the cultural and spiritual continuities that thread through the last four hundred years, the Ojibwe nation itself had been a product and process of post contact history. What had been a loose federation of linguistically related but highly mobile and localized bands emerged through the fur trade into a more coherent social network and set of political alliances. Ethnohistorians have reconsidered fur trade society in terms of culturally diverse, polyglot native villages to which the fur trading companies attached their posts.
Sign in
Personal account
- Sign in with email/username & password
- Get email alerts
- Save searches
- Purchase content
- Activate your purchase/trial code
- Add your ORCID iD
Purchase
Our books are available by subscription or purchase to libraries and institutions.
Purchasing informationMonth: | Total Views: |
---|---|
September 2024 | 2 |
March 2025 | 2 |
Get help with access
Institutional access
Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways:
IP based access
Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.
Sign in through your institution
Choose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Shibboleth/Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic.
If your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institution’s website, please contact your librarian or administrator.
Sign in with a library card
Enter your library card number to sign in. If you cannot sign in, please contact your librarian.
Society Members
Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways:
Sign in through society site
Many societies offer single sign-on between the society website and Oxford Academic. If you see ‘Sign in through society site’ in the sign in pane within a journal:
If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society.
Sign in using a personal account
Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. See below.
Personal account
A personal account can be used to get email alerts, save searches, purchase content, and activate subscriptions.
Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members.
Viewing your signed in accounts
Click the account icon in the top right to:
Signed in but can't access content
Oxford Academic is home to a wide variety of products. The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access. If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian.
Institutional account management
For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.