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favourable [1] Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian is a 1964 concept album, the twentieth album released by singer Johnny Cash on Columbia Records. It is one of several Americana records by Cash. This one focuses on the history of Native Americans in the United States and their problems. Cash believed that his ancestry included ...
XIT (Crossing of Indian Tribes) is a Native American rock band that released two albums in the 1970s on the Rare Earth label. Their music addresses themes of historic and contemporary Native American issues. Their initial recording, 1972's Plight of the Redman, is a concept album with rock opera elements, telling "the story of Native life since ...
[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 ...
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 ...
The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, and performers like Josh White , Burl Ives , Woody Guthrie , Lead Belly , Big Bill Broonzy , Richard Dyer-Bennet , Oscar Brand , Jean Ritchie , John Jacob Niles , Susan Reed , Paul Robeson , Bessie Smith , Ma Rainey and ...
Native North America, Vol. 1. Native North America, Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985 is a compilation album, [2] released in 2014 on Light in the Attic Records. [3] Compiled by Kevin "Sipreano" Howes, [4] the album collects rare and out of print recordings by First Nations, Métis and Inuit musicians from Canada and Alaska ...
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian grassroots movement which was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1968, [ 1 ] initially centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians. [ 2 ] AIM soon widened its focus from urban issues to many ...
The Highwaymen was an American 1960s "collegiate folk" group. The quintet's version of " Michael, Row the Boat Ashore ", a 19th Century African-American work song, released in 1959 under the title "Michael," was a Billboard #1 hit in September 1961. The group scored another Top 20 hit in 1962 with a version of Lead Belly 's " Cotton Fields ".