Discovering American Indian Music

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1971

Creator: BFA

Complete Record: Introduces the traditional native customs, costumes, and daces associated with the music still practiced by eleven representative North American Indian tribes, principally of the Plains and Southwest. Illustrates such Indian song and dances as a Navajo work and horse caravan song, the Kiowa Victory War Dance, the Tesuque Pueblo Bow and Arrow Dance, the Lingit Death Dance, and an Apache dance in homage to the spirits of the mountain. Presents in part using a multi-image technique a contemporary percussion ensemble playing a composition by Cherokee Indian composer Louis Ballard.

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