Native American Music

NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC. The accounts of early Spanish and French explorers confirm that music was an important part of Native American ceremonial life. In 1535, the first chroniclers of Indian life in Texas, the shipwrecked Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his party, were greeted by native people who shouted, clapped their thighs, and brought out gourd-and-pebble rattles to which they attached great importance...

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