NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC

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NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC
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Native American music is fairly homogeneous
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Common Native American instruments are singing
and drums
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Typically there are eight different musical areas
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Plains style Blackfoot War or Grass Dance
song, Textbook CD 3, track 12
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Eastern style Creek Stomp Dance Song,
Textbook CD 3, track 13
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Lummi Stick Game Song Textbook CD 3, track 14
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Intertribal styles have developed in recent times
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Pawnee Ghost Dance Song The Yellow Star,
Textbook CD 3, track 15
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Kiowa Peyote Song Opening Prayer Song and
Sunrise Song, tracks 16 17
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The powwow is an intertribal event that builds a
sense of ethnic identity
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Two Modern Powwow Love Songs, Textbook CD 3,
track 18
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Popular music includes Indian rock music and
Native American flute music
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Native American songs tend to be very short, but
sung in large groups for specific rituals
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The voice is the primary instrument, with drums,
rattles, scrappers, and flutes the most
widespread instruments
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The singing style usually features a tense,
pulsating voice
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There are eight regions that have common musical
cultures
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Music serves as a mediator between us and the
supernatural world
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Individual skill is not valued as highly as group
participation in performance
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Today, Western pop influencesincluding rock and
raphave led to a new type of intertribal popular
music
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Since a musical system is a reflection of the
rest of the culture, how is it so in Native
American cultures?
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Since a musical system is a reflection of the
rest of the culture, how is it so in African
cultures?
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Since a musical system is a reflection of the
rest of the culture, how is it so in Asian
cultures?
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Since a musical system is a reflection of the
rest of the culture, how is it so in American
popular culture?
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How can powwows be seen as an existing Native
American culture on the one hand and a vanished
culture on the other?
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Will powwows ever be enough to bring back older
Native American cultures?