| FB-53787-08 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Victoria Lindsay Levine | Music and Intertribalism of Woodland Indian Communities in Oklahoma | 9/1/2008 - 8/31/2009 | $50,400.00 | Victoria | Lindsay | Levine | | | | Colorado College | Colorado Springs | CO | 80903-3243 | USA | 2007 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
This is a study of music, ceremonial life, and social relationships among the Woodland Indian communities of eastern Oklahoma, focused on the Yuchi but also including other Native Woodland people. Research began in the summer of 1998 and is being conducted collaboratively by myself and the anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson with Yuchi and other Woodland people. I am requesting an NEH Fellowship to support a 12-month sabbatical during the 2008-09 academic year, in order to write a book-length monograph based on this research. As the first comprehensive study of Woodland musical interaction and exchange, this study will illuminate the musical processes of intertribalism, which has been vital to the preservation of Native communities throughout the history of Native American peoples. The project will therefore contribute to an understanding of the role of music not only in Woodland intertribalism, but also in other intertribal movements throughout Native America. |