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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 influences—including rock and rap—have 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?
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