Although Native American communities may lose their ancestral language or other aspects of their traditional culture, music seems to be more resistant to the continual onslaught of the dominant Euro-American culture. Even today, traditional music remains a vital part of Native American communities throughout the United States. In this article I examine one aspect of the musical traditions of the Western Mono, specifically the different types of songs, and their functions within Western Mono society. First, I give a short synopsis of aboriginal Mono culture and society. Next, I discuss what little data have been published dealing with Mono music in the ethnographic literature. And finally, I present the data that I have collected
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Many traditional Aboriginal Australian songs are no longer performed due to the complex history of c...
This thesis develops and utilizes an analytical approach which illuminates the structure of one genr...
The history of vernacular music in the United States is the chronicle of successive encounters betwe...
My paper defines and analyzes the use of Native American elements in classical piano repertoire that...
The thesis attempts to fill one of the many gaps in the research of Northwest Coast Indian musics by...
Since the earliest contacts between Europe and North America, Indians have been represented by Europ...
The Mi'kmaq are an Indigenous people in northeastern North America. In their culture, sound, music, ...
Celebrating the diversity of indigenous nations, cultures and religions, the essays which comprise t...
In presenting this issue of the Journal devoted to music and the expressive arts in general, we hope...
The purpose of this research is to examine past and present Indigenous music and how both interconne...
Nigerian musical practice can be divided into three categories for analysis: indigenous or tribal fo...
In this paper, I look at a variety of works by classical Native American composers as they apply to ...
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Abstract: The Mi’kmaq are an Indigenous people in northeastern North America. In their culture, soun...
Many traditional Aboriginal Australian songs are no longer performed due to the complex history of c...
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The history of vernacular music in the United States is the chronicle of successive encounters betwe...