American Indian Music

Question 1

Arrival of Indians in America

Answer 1

Indians go across Bering Land Strait 15k to 8k years ago to the Americas

Question 2

EU contact

Answer 2

they find 18 mil in NA alone ad a lot of cultures

Question 3

diff of studying early Indian music

Answer 3

only oral records; suppression of culture common; only eu people to get info from and modern day

Question 4

role of music; link to ritual, ownership of songs, vision quest, spiritual power, efficacy

Answer 4

war, gambling, love, chefs/medicine men own most powerful songs; has power; how effective was song? (win war? etc.)

Question 5

musical characterisitcs

Answer 5

no harmony; mix of non-lexical sounds, 3 to 6 note scales, lots of repitition; lots of drum and rattles

Question 6

regional diff; plains, southwest, northwest pacific

Answer 6

pow-wow, men around large drum w/ pulsing high to low to high voices; loud beats signal end of section
high to low tense voices
darker voices, log drums, rattles shaped like animals, banned for many years (log house celebration)

Question 7

pan-indian; trail of tears, ghost dance, pow-wow

Answer 7

forced Indian movement from lands 1000s died; late 19th century (return of dead, bye bye white man); slow circle no instruments, suppressed (led ot Wounded Knee); intertribal gatherings, still happen today

Question 8

NAs and pop music; examples

Answer 8

lots of influence; Link Wray (power chords); Redbone (Come And Get Your Love), Jimi Hendrix