Music & Song

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Oklahoma, 2008.

Musicology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.

Teacher's guide for the documentary which follows blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Derek Miller, a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, as he releases a CD.

Book review of: Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush by Jean A. Murray.

Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2013.

Revised edition.

Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 1998.

Looks at the different boarding schools in the United States that promoted American Indian culture through music education and performances in violation of federal mandates.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.15, (p.313-358 , 9 plates).

Author discusses his beginnings, achievements, and use of art to raise awareness of the social and political realities of life in Papua New Guinea.

Book review of: Natalie Curtis Burlin by Michelle Wick Patterson. Review located by scrolling to page 206.

Reports results of online survey with 621 creators, promoters, supporters of Indigenous music in Canada, group discussions and 70 interviews. Includes profiles and outputs of artists and companies, information on sources of economic impact, barriers and challenges encountered, and considerations for further development.

List of 100 items including narrative and documentary films, and adult, young adult, and children's books.

Comments on strategies used by musicians to balance historically rooted values and traditions with modern ones.

Music and Dance Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1996.

Looks at the spiritual connection to the Native American style of flute. (Music?) Senior Honors Project--University of Rhode Island, 2008.

Discusses lyrics of the performers Maniac: The Siouxpernatural and Night Shield. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 94.

Musical Arts Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Oklahoma, 2008.

Book review of: Native American Performance and Representation edited by S. E. Wilmer.

Book review of: Native American Voices edited by Susan Lobo and Steve Talbot.

File contains twelve negatives from the Native Brotherhood Variety Show held in Prince Albert, SK, on June 20, 1975. The two scanned negatives showcase a band on stage at the Variety show with guitars.

Looks at the distinction made between traditional songs and 'rubbish' songs and the possibility of a third category of songs made by mixing the two.

Large gathering of people around native drummers in western dress.

Website committed to First Nations culture and music with games, images, interviews, articles and teacher resources.

Discusses functions of Native American literatures as a reflection of lived social experiences.

Argues that the course "Native Music of North America" offered by the Washington State University reflects a significant change in philosophy at the institution.

Design and Creative Technologies Thesis (MPhil)--Auckland University of Technology, 2010.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.5, (pp21-63).

Examines Navajo patriarchy within different aspects of the Navajo nation such as government, ceremonies, music, sports and social life.

Joy Harjo discusses influences on her artistic development and reads some of her poetry. Duration: 27:32.

Comments on the life and works of a Nyungar songman.

Discusses Cheryl L'Hirondelle's ability to link older generations to younger generations, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, through art and the internet.

Author talks about collecting music albums and the heroes in his life.

Project brings together musicians and singers from the Nile Basin countries to address water and cultural issues.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Esthetology, or the Science of Activities Designed to Give Pleasure by J. W. Powell Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney

Discusses oral traditions in Aboriginal society and how they have been incorporated into contemporary music.

Music History and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2017 Refers to James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Henry Russell's "The Indian Hunter", and Henry Woodsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha .

Discusses the roles of Fist Nations peoples in two musical works: Arthur A. Clappé and Frederick Augustus Dixon's Canada's Welcome from 1879 and Joseph Vézina, Alex Villandray and Louis Fleur's Le fétiche from 1912.

Essay examines the aboriginal recording industry and the socio-economic conditions under which recordings are created.

Examines the distinctive regional stylistic traits in the music of the North American Indians.

Documentary looks at skills and traditions behind the Northern Inuit games held on Holman Island. Duration: 25:40.

Description of the characteristics of different styles of music.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2019.

Parts of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp359-366).

Contains hymns taken from a collection prepared by Peter Jones, an Ojibwa licensed preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Canada.