Music Collections and Archives
The Densmore Project: Music of the Native Peoples of North America
“The goal of the Densmore Project is to encourage awareness and understanding of traditional Native American music by providing documentary materials and research tools via the world-wide web.”
“The musical materials included here are based primarily on songs collected by Frances Densmore for the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. When completed, the musical materials will include the complete corpus of rougly 2,500 transcriptions of Native American songs collected from some 30 First Nations groups across North America. Currently, about 30 percent of Densmore's materials are encoded. In addition, the project will make available as much contextual and background information as may be assembled and made available in the public domain. This will include photographs, historical recordings, field notes, ethnomusicological annotations, and linguistic data.”
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
”The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is the among the largest ethnographic sound recording archives in North America. Our collections include non-commercial field recordings and commercially produced recordings of traditional, folk, popular, and art musics from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas on a variety of audiovisual formats.”
The California Collection: Theses and Dissertations
Charlotte Heth
“16 sound tape reels: Field recordings made by Charlotte Heth in Oklahoma, 1971-74. Parts of the collection are described in the collector's Ph.D. dissertation, "The Stomp Dance of the Oklahoma Cherokee: A Study of Contemporary Practice with Special Reference to the Illinois District Council Ground" (1975). Contents: Cherokee stomp dance music, Cherokee church hymns and gospel songs, and miscellaneous songs and dances.”
Willard Rhodes
“58 sound tape reels: Field recordings made by Williard Rhodes in North American Indian Communities in 1939-43, 1947,... Contents: music of the Dakota Sioux, Hopi, Zuni, Choctaw, Navajo, Laguna, San Ildefonso, Pawnee, Kiowa, Apache, Caddo, Comanche, Ute, Potowatomie, Creek, Cherokee, Tewa, Washo, Crow, Paiute, Klamath, Walapai, Havasupai, Taos, Puyallup, Nisqually, Lummi, Snohomish, Skokiomish, Snuqualmi, Skagit, Nooksack, Swinomish, Samish, Shaker, Nitinat, Makah, Clayquot, Ozette, Quinault, Kwakiutl, Klallam, Quileute, Chinook, Twana, Bannock, Shoshone, Arapaho, Arikara, Eskimo; … and research and study tapes used as teaching materials by Willard Rhodes during his 30-year tenure at Columbia University. “
The California Collection: Native American Music