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Wabanaki Catholics: Ritual Song, Hybridity, and Colonial Exchange in Seventeenth-Century New England and New France

Gutekunst, Jason Alexander
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1229626549

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, Religion.
This work examines the phenomenon of seventeenth-century Wabanaki Catholics as an instance of Native American Christian religious hybridity, with an emphasis upon the Native American appropriation of Gregorian chant. This study is divided into three chapters. The first chapter analyzes a spectrum of methodological approaches from the disciplines of religionswissenschaft, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and postcolonial studies in order to establish a new hermeneutic for the interpretation of Native American music-making in colonial North America. The second chapter addresses the range of historical, mythological, and religious factors that informed Wabanakis and Europeans as they approached each other in situations of colonial contact and exchange. The third chapter combines the new hermeneutic constructed in the first chapter with the contextual conditions set forth in the second chapter toward an analysis of the meanings borne by Wabanaki Catholic musico-religious praxis as evidenced in the Thomas Kyrie manuscript and other seventeenth-century North American musical documents.
Dr. Peter W. Williams (Advisor)
Dr. Lisa J. M. Poirier (Committee Member)
Dr. Daniel M. Cobb (Committee Member)
65 p.
American History; History; Music; Native Americans; Native Studies; Religion; Religious History
Wabanaki; Native American; Native American song; Gregorian chant; North America; religion; religious studies; colonialism; conversion; chant; indigenous studies; ritual song; Thomas Kyrie manuscript; postcoloniality

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  • Gutekunst, J. A. (2009). Wabanaki Catholics: Ritual Song, Hybridity, and Colonial Exchange in Seventeenth-Century New England and New France [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1229626549

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gutekunst, Jason. Wabanaki Catholics: Ritual Song, Hybridity, and Colonial Exchange in Seventeenth-Century New England and New France. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1229626549.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gutekunst, Jason. "Wabanaki Catholics: Ritual Song, Hybridity, and Colonial Exchange in Seventeenth-Century New England and New France." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1229626549

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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