"Bloechl’s detailed investigation of relationships and interfaces, conflicts and accommodations, is wide-ranging, thoughtful, and persuasive. Her book is an important contribution not only to music studies but to Native American Studies, a broad, interdisciplinary field. --Journal of American Ethnic History
1. On colonial difference and musical frontiers: directions for a postcolonial musicology; Part I. Transatlantic Savagery: 2. Protestant imperialism and the metaphysics of new world song; 3. The voice of possession; 4. The voice of prophecy; Part II. Staging the Indian: 5. Musicking Indians in the Stuart court masque; 6. Savage Lully; 7. Rameau's Les sauvages and the aporia of musical nature; Conclusion. Opera, elsewhere.