Carrying On The Song
The Inuit drum dancing has been slowly fading since Christianity was started in the North. This is because the drum was sometimes used to call the Spirits, although many of songs were just a way of telling stories. I thought it was important for the tradition to be carried on by the new generation,...
| Published in: | Canadian Theatre Review |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
1992
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.73.007 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.73.007 |
| Summary: | The Inuit drum dancing has been slowly fading since Christianity was started in the North. This is because the drum was sometimes used to call the Spirits, although many of songs were just a way of telling stories. I thought it was important for the tradition to be carried on by the new generation, so I started a theatre which had drum dancing in it. |
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