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Native American music

Title: Native American music : paper presentations[, songs and panel discussions].
Author: National Congress on Women in Music (1st : 1981 : New York, N. Y.)
Publication: 1981.

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First National Congress on Women in Music recordings, March 26-29, 1981

Description

2 streaming audio files (75:07) : digital, mono.

Summary

According to Kathryn Donovan Wiegand's paper, ethnomusicologist Alice Fletcher used John Comfort Fillmore as a technical advisor of transcribing songs from the Omaha tribe, unfortunately using European-based harmonies to temper the natural melodies.

Alternative Title

Ah loota ga hoo chi.
I am a female cloud.
Death of a bird.
First National Congress on Women in Music recordings.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Panel discussions.

Note

Audio slightly erratic.
Unidentified piano and vocal music in background (Part 2)
Former classmark on original cassette: *LTC 103 (F)
Title from original cassette label; additional information from catalog (cassette tapes, schedule of meetings and concerts, and newspaper clippings ([16], 46, [21] p.); Available on request.
An excerpt of Part 1 of the lectures (Judith Vander and Kathryn Donovan Wiegand) is also available on *LTC-A 1365 (Part 2)

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Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: First National Congress on Women in Music recordings.

Contents

[Part 1]: [Excerpt] [Introductions ; Opening remarks] (Jacqueline Higgins-Rosebrook) -- Session 5 paper presentations: "The song repertoire of four Shoshone women: a reflection of cultural movements and sex roles" / Judith Vander -- "Alice Fletcher and the American Indians: An evaluation of her contribution to ethnomusicology" / Kathryn Donovan Wiegand -- [Unidentified Native American sun dance song] [ends abruptly]
[Part 2]: [Excerpt] "Singing into life: music of Native American women" (featuring Pomo song: "Ah loota ga ho chi" = I am a female cloud) / Janice Giteck -- [Panel discussion with Janice Giteck, Kathryn Donovan Wiegand, Judith Vander and Jacqueline Higgins-Rosebrook, with audience members] ; [Excerpt] "The song is the thing" / Jacqueline Higgins-Rosebrook -- Mourning song: Death of a bird [Tlingit tribe of Alaska] -- [Panel discussion with Janice Giteck, Kathryn Donovan Wiegand, Judith Vander and Jacqueline Higgins-Rosebrook, with audience members] [Excerpt to end]

Call Number

*LTC-A 1369

OCLC

900005655

Conference

National Congress on Women in Music (1st : 1981 : New York, N. Y.)

Title

Native American music : paper presentations[, songs and panel discussions].

Production

1981.

Playing Time

004522 002945

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audiocassette

Performer

Judith Vander (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and Kathryn Donovan Wiegand (graduate student in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University), lecturers ; Jacqueline Higgins-Rosebrook (Seattle, Washington), moderator, lecturer and commentator.

Event

Recorded New York University, New York, N. Y. 1981 March 28.

Access

Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Original Version

Archival original: (1 audio cassette : analog, mono) in *LTC-A 1369.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: First National Congress on Women in Music recordings.

Local Note

Preservation files: (2 audio files : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit), in long term storage, Digital Library Processing server [myh_ltca1369_f01_em (part 1) and myh_ltca1369_f02_em (part 2)].

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Higgins-Rosebrook, Jacqueline, moderator.

Higgins-Rosebrook, Jacqueline, commentator.

Wiegand, Kathryn Donovan, commentator.

Vander, Judith, commentator.

Giteck, Janice, 1946- commentator.

Vander, Judith, lecturer.

Wiegand, Kathryn Donovan, lecturer.

Giteck, Janice, 1946- lecturer.

Giteck, Janice, 1946- performer.

Container of (work): Vander, Judith. Song repertoire of four Shoshone women: a reflection of cultural movements and sex roles.

Container of (work): Wiegand, Kathryn Donovan. Alice Fletcher and the American Indians: An evaluation of her contribution to ethnomusicology.

Container of (work): Giteck, Janice, 1946- Singing into life: music of Native American women. Selections.

Container of (work): Higgins-Rosebrook, Jacqueline. Song is the thing. Selections.

Added Title

Ah loota ga hoo chi.

I am a female cloud.

Death of a bird.

First National Congress on Women in Music recordings.

Found In:

First National Congress on Women in Music recordings, March 26-29, 1981

Research Call Number

*LTC-A 1369

*LTC 103 sess. 5 no. 1 (former classmark)

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