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Michelle Oswell, Humanities Librarian for Music and Literature (HC)

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MUSC 149 : Native American Music and Belief (HC)

Music resources:

The Garland encyclopedia of world music

Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1998-c2002.

See volume three, The United States and Canada. You'll find excellent overviews of the various regions and their music, short but basic bibliographies, and a good index in this volume. Start here for a topic dealing with music.

Smithsonian global sound

Provides online audio recordings of American folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word, and world music from the Smithsonian Folkways label and others. You can find a good amount of Native American music in this database and the liner notes are often filled with useful information.

Oxford music online

Covers all topics related to music, including musical instruments, compositional forms and scientific topics. Biographical entries cover composers, performers and writers. Offers links to related sites including sound archives.

RILM abstracts of music literature

Provider: CSA

Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.

Anthropological resources:

Anthropology plus

Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.

Handbook of North American Indians

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution : <1978-2001 >

The Native American almanac

Author: Hirschfelder, Arlene B. De Montaño, Martha Kreipe.

Publisher: New York : Prentice Hall General Reference, c1993.

Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian

Publisher: Nyack, N.Y. : Todd Publications, c2000.

Contains a good subject-based bibliography with practical as well as scholarly resources. You might be able to find good sources here on how to make Native American baskets, instruments, etc. After finding a title in the subject bibliography, look it up in the alphabetical bibliography to find author and publishing information.

Native Americans

Author: Nordquist, Joan.

Publisher: Santa Cruz, CA : Reference and Research Services, 1998.

LLBA

Provider: CSA

Contains abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics and language-related research, including journal articles, books, book reviews, dissertations and some conference proceedings. Covers all aspects of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology,syntax and semantics. Includes historical, comparative, theoretical and social linguistics and related disciplines such as anthropology, education, and ethnology. Covers 1973-present.

Links for Group Presentations:

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Native American Rights Fund

American Indian College Fund

National Museum of the American Indian

American Indian Community House

Navajo Codetalkers Association

Native American Church

This is a link to an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica online. For more information, you may try searching online for specific churches (they tend to be organized by state).

American Indian Movement

North American Indian music

Author: Keeling, Richard.

Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1997.

Journals:

American Indian quarterly.

Publisher: [Hurst, Tex.] : Southwestern American Indian Society, c1974-

Ethno-musicology.

Publisher: [S.l. : s.n., 1953-

Native peoples :

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1997-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1997-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1997-present.

Publisher: Phoenix, Ariz. : Heard Museum,

Native Americas :

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1994-2004.
(Haverford College) Available from 1994-2004.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1994-2004.

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Akwe:kon Press, American Indian Program, Cornell University,

Ethnic newswatch

Offers full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. In English and Spanish, it offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Covers 1990-present.