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Scale over 5 octaves Pentatonic Scale - C Major. Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, and other North American countries—especially ...
Previously, Native American recordings had been placed in the folk, world or new-age music categories. [4] While some Native American artists criticized the award category for being "too narrowly defined to accommodate the breadth of today's Indian music", others took pride in its inclusion.
[1] [2] While Native American identity can at times be a complex and contested issue, the Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry, and legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. Ethnologically, factors such as ...
This is a list of American Indian music by group or tribal nation.See: American Indian music. Aleut music: people; Algonquin music: people. Menominee music: people; Odawa music: people
Music for The Native Americans is a 1994 album by Robbie Robertson, compiling music written by Robertson and other colleagues (billed as the Red Road Ensemble) for the television documentary film The Native Americans. [4] The album was Robertson's first foray into writing music specifically inspired by his Mohawk heritage. Robertson brought in ...
The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 as the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the regionally based traditional American music, including Hawaiian, Native American, polka, zydeco and Cajun music genres.
Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album (9 P) N. Native American musicians (8 C, 41 P) New Mexico music (2 C, 1 P) P. Plains Indian music (9 P) S.
Davis was born in Norman, Oklahoma.His father, Jesse Edwin "Bus" Davis II, was a citizen of the Comanche Nation [8] and a Muscogee and Seminole descendant. [4] [9] His father was also a prominent Native American artist whose nome d'arte was Asawoya [8] or Running Wolf.