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Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934 Volume 3

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Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934 Volume 3 - Troutman, John W
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From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and opportunity for Native peoples?

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Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934 Volume 3 2012, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806142692

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