Imagining Native America in Music -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes for the Reader -- Imagining Native America in Music -- Introduction: A Language for Imagining Native America -- I. New World Americans -- 1. Noble Savagery in European Court Entertainments, 1550- 1760 -- 2. Death, Defiance, and Diplomacy: Resistance in British-American Theater and Song, 1710- 1808 -- II. Exotic Peoples, Exotic Sounds -- 3. Imagining the Frontier, 1795- 1860 -- 4. "In the Glory of the Sunset": Singing and Playing -- III. Nostalgia for a Native Land -- 5. Ethnographic Encounters -- 6. The Nationalism Controversy: Quotation or Intonation? -- 7. In Search of the Authentic: Musical Tribal Portraits, 1890-1911 -- III. Americans Again -- 8. "I'm an Indian Too": Playing Indian in Song and on Stage, 1900-1946 -- 9. Underscoring Ancestry: Music for Native America in Film -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Forty-nine Parlor Indian Songs and Ten Parlor Instrumental Works, 1802- 1860s, Arranged Chronologically -- Appendix 2 Selected List of Instrumental Character Pieces ( Musical Tribal Portraits) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.