Description
Center for the Arts of Indian America, Published 1974. Wraps, 57 pp.; 27 cm (oblong); Second Printing, May 1974 (first published 1973); illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photographs and drawings.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Blue pictorial paper covers (sky photograph) show light bumping increasing to edges and corners, and mild shelf wear. Staple bound, binding is tight. Original price ($2.50) stamped on page one. Mild soiling to edges of text block pages, otherwise unmarked. Teacher's resource on Native American musical instruments, developed by the Indian America Design Workshop in Santa Fe and funded by the Ford Foundation and the Center for the Arts of Indian America. Coordinated by James McGrath, Institute of American Indian Arts, with composer Louis Ballard (Quapaw-Cherokee) as music consultant. Covers drums, flutes, whistles, rattles, and the human voice, with instrument-making instructions, Native poetry, classroom guidance, and photographs by Karl Kernberger alongside historical images. Contents: Cultural Differences: Music; Native American Music: Its Spirit; The Shape of the Drumbeat; Chippewa Dream Drum; Water Drum and Native American Church; Other Drum Styles; To Make a Drum; Drums: Questions and Answers; The Flute Voice; Clay Whistles and Flutes; To Make a Flute; Flutes: Questions and Answers; The Human Voice; The Rattle Sounds; To Make a Horn Rattle; Rattles: Questions and Answers; Cultural Heritage Workshops; Other Instrument Sounds and Music; Collecting Musical Instruments; The Rasp; The Trutrucas of Argentina and Chile; American Indian Musical Instruments in Original Composition; Bringing Musicians into the Classroom; Creating Native American Music, Song, Dance and the Blue Corn Story; Indian Song, Dance, Music as Communication; An Assessment; Resources and Acknowledgments; The Kayak Paddler's Joy at the Weather.