Creation's journey : Native American music

CD Music recording

Creation's journey : Native American music / presented by the National Museum of the American Indian.

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) (Added Author).

Summary:

Ceremonial, social and contemporary music of Native Americans, who present ancient, living traditions long with innovations and crossovers to Euro-American musics. Recordings of music are from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia.

Record details

ISBN: 1560984538
Physical Description: 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Washington, DC : Smithsonian/Folkways, ℗1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Smithsonian/Folkways: CD SF 40410 (on container spine: SF40410).

"Ceremonial, social and contemporary music of Native Americans ... from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia"--Container.

"This recording and its companion book Creation's journey: Native American identity and belief (1994, Smithsonian Institution Press) complement the exhibition Creation's journey: masterworks of native American identity and belief, on view at the Heye Center [at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York City]"--Insert.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Charlotte Heth and selected bibliography and discography (23 p. : ill.)--inserted in container.
Formatted Contents Note:: Prairie chicken dance (Blackfoot Crossing Singers) -- Scalp dance ; Victory dance : Comanche -- Two step : Inform your grandma (D.J. Nez, Navajo) -- Crown dance (White Mountain Apache) -- Butterfly dance : Tewa -- New women's shuffle dance (Young Nation, Seneca) -- Constitution breakdown ; Sheehan's reel ; Pigeon on the gate (Lee Cremo Trio, Micmac) -- A beautiful life ; On the Jericho Road (Kingfisher Trio, Cherokee) -- Helana : Yup'ik -- Hello song : Yup'ik -- Ladies dance : Kwakiutl -- Peace dance : Kwakiutl -- Sata kallta ; Axawiri imilla (Communidad Aymara de Laqaya, Aymara) -- Son de la danza de los mixes : Zapotec.
Creation/Production Credits Note:: Executive consultant, Charlotte Heth ; producer, Terence Winch.
Participant or Performer Note:: Various performers.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:: Recorded 1992-Jan. 1993, at the Heye Center and Giant Recording Studios, New York City, and Mar. 1993, at Omega Recording Studios, Rockville, Md.
Language Note:: Includes songs in Native languages.