Singing for Power: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona

by Ruth Murray Underhill

Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520326149
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/28/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	174
File size:	6 MB

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Editorial Reviews

**** Reprinting of the book originally published by the U. of California Press in 1938 (cited in BCL3). Has a new foreword by Ofelia Zepeda. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Miss Underhill has given us here, in as accurate a free rendering as the structure of English permits, a group of songs which the Papago sing for power—to make themselves, so they think, better able to cope with the difficult environment in which they live."—The Nation

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