Makes Me Feel Glad That I'm Not Dead: Jim Pepper and Music of the Native American Church

This article identifies Jim Pepper's 1971 jazz hit “Witchi Tai To” as a contact zone in which cultures (Native and non-Native) collide. In the song, Native powwow culture and Native identities are reclaimed and reinterpreted within a jazz idiom. While Native supratribal identities are celebrate...

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Main Author: Poirier, Lisa J. M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2018]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 120-130
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pepper, Jim 1941-1992 / Native American Church / Church music / Peyote cult
RelBib Classification:BB Indigenous religions
CB Christian life; spirituality
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
Further subjects:B Native American religion
B Jazz
B Native American Church
B Music
B Peyote
B contact zone
B Opacity
B Jim Pepper
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