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Victoria Lindsay Levine
Professor of Music, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. Author of Writing American Indian Music and others.
Victoria Lindsay Levine
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Native American music, music of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The Americas contain hundreds of native communities, each with its own distinctive history, language, and musical culture. These communities—although united in placing music at the centre of public life—have developed extraordinarily diverse and multifaceted performance traditions. This article provides a general introduction to Native American musics with treatments of the roles of music in culture, musical styles and genres, musical instruments, music history, and the study of American Indian musics. Generalizations about the relationship between music and culture in Native American communities are gleaned from musical concepts and ...(100 of 12040 words)

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