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Music: Native American

This guide is designed to help you find materials available from the Houston Cole Library for research in music.

Native American

A photo of Tommy Wildcat playing the flute at the Cherokee Leaders Conference in Catoosa, Oklahoma (2013)
Photo by Phil Konstantin (Philkon)

Dakota Indians (Sioux)

Books

A cry from the earth : music of the North American Indians by John Bierhorst
Call Number: ML3930.A2 B57
Encyclopedia of Native Music by Brian Wright-McLeod; Brian Wright-Mcleod
Call Number: ML 156.4 .I5 W75 2005
Located in the Reference Collection, 6th floor
Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians by Alan P. Merriam
Call Number: ML3557 .M49
An introduction to Navaho chant practice, with an account of the behaviors observed in four chants by Clyde Kluckhohn and Leland Clifton Wyman
Call Number: GN2 .A22 no. 53 1969
This book is available on the 3rd floor.
Music and dance of the Tewa Pueblos by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath and Antonio Garcia
Call Number: ML3557 .K875
Native American Music by Marcia Herdon
Call Number: ML3557 .H56
The Ojibwa Dance Drum by Thomas Vennum
Call Number: ML1035 .V46 1982
Primitive Music by Richard Wallaschek
Call Number: ML3547 .W19 1970
Publication Date: 1970
The United States and Canada by Ellen Koskoff (Editor)
Call Number: Reference ML 100 .G16 1998