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North American Indian Music in Transition: A Study of Songs with English Words as an Index of Acculturation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Willard Rhodes
Willard Rhodes*
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York City
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Among the vast and varied song repertories of North American Indians, there is a category of songs that has received little attention from ethnomusicologists and anthropologists: the native melodies with English words. A number of these songs have been heard with amusement by workers in the field, and a few have been recorded, but to my knowledge no one has attempted to study the significance of this material and its relation to the societies that have produced it. Despite the paucity of recordings and information that precludes a comprehensive study of these interesting songs, this paper is offered as an initial and tentative effort to give form and interpretation to this material, with the hope that others may be stimulated to carry out further investigations and research.

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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , 1963 , pp. 9 - 14
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1963

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