Event Start:
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theater at the Dana Center, Barnard College (117th and Broadway)
Native Sounds North&South: Traditional and Popular
Music from Alaska, Arizona and the AndesNew and
traditional sounds from Native North and South America.
As part of
the conference on "Music and Indigeneity in the Americas" (Oct. 1-2,
2010, Columbia University) The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia
University is pleased to present a unique performance of traditional and
popular music from Native North and South America, including hip hop
from Alaska, country music from Arizona, and Nasa flute music from
Colombia. Please click on artist names below for more information on
each performer.
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The Center for Ethnomusicology holds copies of, and rights to, the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional Music, consisting of field recordings of folk and traditional musics made around the world by collector Laura Boulton, from the 1930s through the 1960s. In 1933 and again in 1940, Boulton recorded a total of 129 Hopi songs, ranging from secular to spiritual genres. (The 1933 recordings were made at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition; the 1940 recordings at Hopi.)
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