Navajo Indians -- Music
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Charlemaud Curtis Collection of Southwestern Music, Interviews and Programs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-847-BC
Abstract
The Curtis collection contains a wide variety of recordings including music, programs and interviews. They range from Navajo, Pueblo, Keresan, Laguna and Mescalero Apache and songs and dances, Spanish alabados, Christmas plays, and wedding dances and popular music, to Anglo American fiddle and cowboy tunes and African American gospel music. Also included are some songs from the Cheyenne and Plains Indians, the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, the Indians of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru, and a...
Dates:
1960-1987
Donald L. Roberts Collection of Music of the Southwest and Mexico
Collection
Identifier: MU-14
Abstract
The collection contains recordings of Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo songs, as well as a few Apache, Ute, and Kiowa songs. A major part deals with the history and use of sand paintings, native medicine and star beliefs. There are also Matachines dances, a Los Pastores program and a concert of songs performed by the University of Chihuahua Folkloric group. The collection includes detailed explanations of the selections.
Dates:
1964-1968
Indian Music of the Southwest and Mexico Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-4
Abstract
This collection of sound recordings was donated to the John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music by the Music Department of the University of New Mexico. It consisted of three reels of pre-1963 commercial recordings of Native American music from Mexico and the Southwestern United States, which have been reformatted to CD.
Dates:
[193?]-1963
Manuel Archuleta collection of Pueblo Indian, Navajo and Hopi music
Collection
Identifier: MSS-830-BC
Abstract
The collection contains Native American music from San Juan, San Felipe, Laguna, Taos and Zuni Pueblos, as well as the Navajo and Hopi. The songs were recorded in the 1940s by Manuel Archuleta, of San Juan Pueblo.
Dates:
ca. 1940-1970
Mary Louise Perrine Recordings of Navajo Chants, Songs, and Prayers
Collection
Identifier: MU-9
Abstract
This collection contains three CDs with Navajo children and adults performing social songs.
Dates:
1959-1964
Odd S. Halseth Collection of Native American Social Songs and Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MU-22
Abstract
This collection consists of 278 sound recordings made in 1950 and 1965. It contains social songs, dances, violin and vocal presentations, oral history interviews and commentaries about Native American customs, social life, ceremonies and rituals.
Dates:
1950-1965
Sally Noe collection of Gallup oral histories and Southwest Native American music
Collection
Identifier: MSS-837-BC
Abstract
This collection contains oral history interviews, conducted in the 1980s-1990s with non-Native American people who describe their lives in the Gallup area. Their recollections date back to the early and mid-1900s. Interviewees include Indian trading post owners, rug traders, miners, railroad workers, loggers, ranchers, teachers, business operators, politicians, a Medal of Honor winner and a movie star stand-in. There are also several recordings of Navajo, Pueblo and Comanche music from ca....
Dates:
circa 1920-2011; Majority of material found within (, 1979-1990)