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168 THE AMERICAN INDIANS |
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1961, 2 vols.) and Gilbert Chase, A Guide to the Music of Latin America, 2nd ed. (Washington: Pan American Union, 1962) are indispensable bibliographies. Bruno Nettl, An Introduction to Folk Music in the United States (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1960) is a brief survey.
Two attempts to show the various styles in North American Indian music are Helen H. Roberts, Musical Areas in Aboriginal North America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1936) and Bruno Nettl, North American Indian Musical Styles (Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1954). The most prolific author on North American Indian music was Frances Densmore, and all of her publications, many of them published by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., are worth examination. Recent developments in this field are discussed by Willard Rhodes, "Acculturation in North American Indian Music," in Acculturation in the Americas, ed. Sol Tax (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952). Robert Stevenson, The Music of Peru, Aboriginal and Viceroyal Epochs (Washington: Pan American Union, 1959) devotes two chapters to what is known of ancient Inca music. Karl G. Izikowitz, Musical and Other Sound Instruments of the South American Indians (Goteborg: Elanders, 1935) is a comprehensive discussion of its field.
The Library of Congress has issued a number of recordings made from Frances Densmore's collections in its series, Folk Music of the United States. Another series covering many tribes is Music of the American Indian, edited by Willard Rhodes, Library of Congress AAFS L34-43.
Other recordings of North American Indian music of interest are Indian Music of the Canadian Plains, Folkways P 464; American Indians of the Southwest, Folkways FW 8850; and Music of the Sioux and Navaho, Folkways P 401. Indian music of Latin America is presented in Indian Music of Mexico, Folkways P 413; Music from, Mato Grosso, Folkways P 446; and Indian Music of the Upper Amazon, Folkways P 458. |
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