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Jan 16, 2014 · Singing Wagner to Navajos: Natalie Curtis's Journey From Classical Music to Native and African American Folk Songs 1. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2014. Michelle Wick Patterson. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Abstract.
Dec 29, 2023 · She even learned to speak Navajo, which is no easy feat. Befriended Native American tribes. Learned to speak Navajo. Recorded and transcribed hundreds of songs and stories. Thanks to her groundbreaking work, we have a vast collection of Native American music that might have been lost forever.
On the evening of New Year's Day 1903, Natalie Curtis, one of a "few privileged palefaces" who had led a group of about thirty Navajos to Pasadena, California, for the Tournament of Roses festi-val, sat down around the fire with her friends. She approached the interpreter for the Navajo delegation and asked, "If I sing for them will they sing ...
The work of Natalie Curtis, along with her contemporaries, may have been done with the intention of both aiding and advancing Indigenous people and their music but that does not mean these transcription practices did not engage in any harm.
On the evening of New Year’s Day 1903, Natalie Curtis, one of a “few privileged palefaces” who had led a group of about thirty Navajos to Pasadena, California, for the Tournament of Roses festival, sat down around the fire with her friends.
Singing Wagner to Navajos: Natalie Curtis's Journey From Classical Music to Native and African American Folk Songs January 2014 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 13(1):93-108
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Natalie Curtis Burlin was an American ethnomusicologist whose interest in Native American and African-American musics extended not only to archiving but to vigorous cultural advocacy for those musical traditions. Natalie Curtis attended the National Conservatory of Music in her native city and.
