Native American Music in Eastern North America

Native American Music in Eastern North America by Beverly Diamond is a small, textbook like book which includes information about several traditional styles of Indigenous music, based off of the region they came from. Below is part of the description from the back of the book:

Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of the first books to explore the contemporary musical landscape of indigenous North Americans in the north and east. It shows how performance traditions of Native North Americans have been influenced by traditional social values an cultural histories, as well as by encounters and exchanges with other indigenous groups and with newcomers from Europe and Africa.”

This book also comes with a CD containing 18 tracks that are referenced throughout the text.

Diamond, Beverly. Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York, NY: Oxford U, 2008. Print.

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