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Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
, 1915-1967
Jack Kilpatrick was born in 1915 in Stillwell, Oklahoma and he died in 1967. He was a prominent composer, teacher and translator and was head of the Department of Musicology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Mus.D from the University of Redlands in 1950. He composed a symphony for the Oklahoma semicentennial in 1957. At the time of his death he was composing a symphony using only Indian music patterns. With his wife, they wrote and translated several books on the Cherokee.
Books by Jack Frederick Kilpatrick:
Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. Friends of Thunder, folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1964.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 197 p. music. 24 cm.
Includes bibliography. Cherokee Indians--Legends.
Audience: All Ages
Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. Muskogean charm songs among the Oklahoma Cherokees
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Press, 1967.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 20-40 p. music. 30 cm.
Series : Smithsonian contributions to anthropology. v. 2, no. 3 Includes bibliography. Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. Music. Cherokee Indians. Ethnomusicology.
Audience: All Ages
Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. New Echota letters
Dallas, Texas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1968.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 130 p. ; 27 cm.
Other titles : Cherokee Phoenix. Edited by Jack Frederick Kilpatrick and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick. Includes bibliography. Summary : Selections from the newspaper Cherokee phoenix, 1828-33, including contributions of S. A. Worcester and the newspaper's editor, E. Boudinot. Cherokee Indians--History. Cherokee language. Worcester, Samuel Austin, 1798-1859. Boudinot, Elias, d. 1839.
Audience: Adult
Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. Notebook of a Cherokee shaman
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press;, 1970.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 83-125 p. ; 30 cm.
Series : Smithsonian contributions to anthropology. v. 2, no. 6. Includes bibliography. Cherokee Indians--Medicine.
Audience: Adult
Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. Run toward the nightland; magic of the Oklahoma Cherokees
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1967.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 197 p. 24 cm.
Notes : Includes melodies with words. Includes bibliography. Cherokee Indians--Religion and mythology. Indian magic--North America. Indian incantations.
Audience: Adult
Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. The shadow of Sequoyah; social documents of the Cherokees, 1862-1964
Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press , 1965.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 129 p. facsims. 23 cm.
Translated and edited by Jack Frederick and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick. Series : Civilization of the American Indian series. Notes : Includes bibliography. Cherokee Indians--Social life and customs.
Audience: Adult
A196 . Walk in your soul; love incantations of the Oklahoma Cherokees
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1965.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 164 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliography. Cherokee Indians Incantations, Indian.
Audience: Adult
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