Discovering American Indian Music

Duration: 24 min.

Genre: Educational | Ethnographic

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Phoenix

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 16May78 · PA 11-040 (Jul-Dec 1978) Copyright holder: BFA Educational Media

Description: Authentically costumed American Indian from various tribes around the country perform songs and dances. Describes the social and ceremony functions of the music and portrays how Indians live. Includes a composition by American Indian composer Louis Ballard., Introduces the traditional native customs, costumes, and dances associated with the music still practiced by eleven representative North American tribes, principally of the Plains and Southwest. Illustrates such Native American songs and dances as a Navaho 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 composer Louis Ballard.

Complete Record: , American Indians from various tribes around the country use traditional instruments and costumes to perform songs and dances. Describes the social and ceremonial functions of music and portrays how some Indians live today. Includes a composition by American Indian composer Louis Ballard. , Presents the songs and dances of tribes from various parts of the country performed in authentic costumes. We learn of the social and ceremonial functions of the music, and also find out something of how Indians live today., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.