The Singing Drum
- ISBN
- 9780790115245
The Singing Drum is a indigenous peoples, sacred artifacts book by Clare Scott-Mitchell.
About this book
The Singing Drum tells the story of an object, an object of meaning and power. The object, in this beautifully sensitive story of dispossession, is a drum - a drum made for ceremonial use by the artist-shamans of an Indigenous American community. Many such communities fragmented during colonisation and pillage of North America and sublimely resonant in Scott-Mitchell's telling. The drum is the unseen protagonist of the tale, everseeking to guide humans as they wander, mostly unconscious, in contemporary capitalist American society towards a penultimate moment - uncovering the truth of the drum's purpose, and the fate of its makers.
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The Singing Drum is a Indigenous Peoples, Sacred Artifacts, Colonisation, Dispossession book.
What is The Singing Drum about?+
The Singing Drum tells the story of an object, an object of meaning and power. The object, in this beautifully sensitive story of dispossession, is a drum - a drum made for ceremonial use by the artist-shamans of an Indigenous American community. Many such communities fragmented during colonisation ...
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The Singing Drum was written by Clare Scott-Mitchell.