The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

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Pueblo ceremonial song

tradition · prehistoric–

Also called Pueblo song, Rio Grande ceremonial

Living ceremonial song of the Pueblo towns: unison chorus, drum, rattle, and dance as agriculture and katsina work. This is a Southwest seed. Empty extra Received/Given is historically checked. It is not a leftover “Native American music” bin and not Mesoamerican ceremonial under another name. Siblings now filed: Plains ceremonial song and Northwest Coast potlatch song. Navajo ceremonial leftover as a neighboring Athabaskan school, not a parent or child. Mission leftover as later incoming, not a parent. Mesoamerican trade leftover as objects, not a sounding parent. Public feast days leftover as this school still living, not a child.

Listen

  1. Corn dance song Pueblo ceremonial tradition (traditional) YouTube
  2. Kachina / katsina song (Hopi) Hopi ceremonial tradition (traditional) YouTube

Passed on

Worldbeat genre · 1980–2000

Robert Mirabal (Taos) takes Pueblo flute, drum, and dance-song color into amplified fusion records sold on the Native/worldbeat circuit (Land, 1995).

Influence

Pueblo ceremonial song → Worldbeat

instrumentationtimbre and productionperformance practicestrength: mediumwell documented1995–2000recordingpatronage

Mechanism

Robert Mirabal (Taos) takes Pueblo flute, drum, and dance-song color into amplified fusion records sold on the Native/worldbeat circuit (Land, 1995). Strength medium. Katsina and feast-day song leftover as the village job, not a child. Navajo/Ute flute leftover as a neighboring marketed flute school (Nakai), not this hop’s source.

Evidence

Mirabal’s 1990s albums and tours; Grove on Pueblo music’s concert afterlife. Canyon Records leftover as a catalog, not a genre child.

Debate

Whether concert Native flute is still Pueblo ceremonial. The edge is the named Taos artist’s hybrid product, not a claim that feast-day song became worldbeat. Plains powwow leftover as a sibling public school, not a parent.

Mediators

artist: Robert Mirabal