| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Performer |
Chiefly instrumental music, performed by various native American fiddlers, singers, performing or community groups. |
| Event |
Recorded 1963 to 1996, in various locations throughout the Americas. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
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Program notes (25 p. : ill. ; 12 cm.) by Daniel Sheehy and others, inserted in container. |
| Contents |
Violin : Chapaco : Bolivia / José Enrique Benítez, violin -- La guaneña : Quechua : Colombia / Danubio Azul group (Tulcán Naspirán family) performing on violin, tambora (drum), barítono (baritone horn), and tiple (soprano guitar) -- Danza a Santiago (excerpt) : Quechua : Peru / performed by the townspeople of Llacuari Pueblo on violin and wakrapuku (trumpet fashioned from animal horns), with vocals -- Kariso : Warao : Venezuela / Antonio Loranzano, performing on a seke-seke (violin) -- Araku : Mbya : Argentina / Gervasio Martínez, five-string guitar ; Mario Silva, rabel (three-string violin) -- Nantu ("Luna") : Shuar : Ecuador / Pedro Nayap, kitiar (two-string violin) and vocal -- Yan tox : K'ekshi Maya : Guatemala / Mateo Mo Xal, violin ; Crisanto Coc, harp -- Jacaltenango : Kanjobal Maya : Guatemala / Grupo Jolom Conob (Basilio Pedro, violin ; Nicolás Pedro, guitar) -- Aires fandango : Yucatecan Maya : Mexico / Marcelino Poot Ek, violin ; Pedro Ek Cituk, tarola (snare drum) ; Esteban Caamal Dzul, bombo (bass drum) -- Tzacamson : Tenek : Mexico / performed by the townspeople of Tancanhuitz (Ciudad Santos), San Luis Potosi, Mexico -- Son para entregar a la novia : (Xalsokoxochitl y Xochison--dos sones de gusto por haber amanecido en el baile) : Nahua : Mexico / José Augustin Cruz and José Martín Cruz, violin, guitar -- Wiricuta : Wirrarica (Huichol) : Mexico / Mariano, Pablo, Rosenda, and Agustín, raweri (violin), kanari (guitar), rattle, and vocals -- Melody played on the enneg (excerpt) : Konkaak (Seri) : Mexico / Francisco Barnet Astorga, enneg (bowed monochord) -- I'll go with you : San Carlos Apache : Arizona / Chesley Goseyun Wilson, vocal, flute, violin --Pahko'ola dance song : Yaqui : Arizona / Yaqui Pahko'ola and Deer Singers (Felipe Molina (group leader), rasp ; Mateo Gonzales Osuna, harp ; Blas Alvares Valenzuela, violin ; Steve Armadillo, water drum ; Guillermo Amarillo Flores, rasp ; Steve Armadillo, Jr., rattles, bells ; Adam Armadillo, rattles, bells) -- Never alone : Tohono O'odham : Arizona / San Xavier Fiddle Band (Eddie Felix, fiddle ; Ed Wilson, fiddle ; Eugene Alvarez, bass drum ; Delbert Lewis, guitar ; Cecil Adams, guitar ; Delbert Nuñez, snare) --Strathspey and reel medley ; Jig medley : Mi'kmaq : Cape Breton, Canada / Lee Cremo Trio (Lee Cremo, fiddle ; Vincent Joe, piano ; Wilfred Paul, guitar) -- Finale medley : Ojibwe : Manitoba, Canada / Lawrence "Teddy Boy" Houle, fiddle ; Lionel Desjarlais, guitar -- Eagle Island blues : Athapaskan love song : Gwich'in : Alaska / Bill Stevens, fiddle ; Francis Williams, guitar ; Lisa Jaeger, guitar, bones, eggs, cabasa ; Bill Rogers, bass ; Tony "Snowshoe" Scott Pearce, English concertina) -- Turkey in the straw : Assiniboine Nakota : Wisconsin / Georgia Wettlin-Larsen -- Road to Batoche ; Big John McNeill : Turtle Mountain Chippewa (Métis) : North Dakota / Jimmie LaRocque, fiddle ; Gerry McIvor, fiddle, guitar ; Kim Chartrand, jigger. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Music.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Music.
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Indigenous peoples -- Central America -- Music.
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| Subject |
Fiddle tunes -- America.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Music.
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| Subject |
Folk music -- America.
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Indians of Central America -- Music.
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Indians of North America -- Music.
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| Added Author |
Sheehy, Daniel, 1947-
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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
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| Added Title |
Indian fiddle music of the Americas |
| Standard No. |
093074047224 |
| Music No. |
SF 40472 Smithsonian Folkways |
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