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Omaha Indian Music - Wax Cylinder (1895-1897) - Hethu'shka Songs (2-CD Set): Omaha Indian Music Wax Cylinder 18951897 Hethushka Songs 2CD Set |
| Product Description : The Wax Cylinder recordings of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska would have been largely ignored and forgotten had there not been a resurgence of interest in the musical culture of Native Americans during the 1980s. The studies that followed were primarily based on the early notes and recollections of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) whose fascination with the Omaha people began at an 1880 Boston literary gathering and her introduction to Omaha chief scion Francis La Flesche. Amongst the first to document and review these recordings, which have now been returned to the tribe of origin, was the Omaha Tribal Archivist Dennis Hastings. He made the following comments on them on October 24, 1985 at the Library of Congress - "Without songs you don't really have a culture. If you listen to the words of them, they mean involvement with nature and our being and our surroundings. It's a tie, a connection to every living thing--man's power of growth and movement, the ability to think, to will, and to bring to pass." The songs contained on these CDs are representative of the original wax recordings and constitute a rich cultural treasure-trove - a celebration of life, Nature and unseen, unsuspected American heritage. |
