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Brian Wright-McLeod
News From Indian Country
The steady growth of the contemporary Native music scene is becoming more visible as waves of new artists in all genres come to the forefront. Yet, much of the general public, and many Native musicians remain completely unaware of the rich history of their predecessors.
Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture is a new exhibit that opens August 7, 2010 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Featured here are the many important contributions made to contemporary music by thirteen iconic Native musicians from the 1920s to the present. Link Wray (Shawnee), Redbone, Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), Jesse Ed Davis (Kiowa/Comanche), Jimi Hendrix (African American/Cherokee), Rita Coolidge (Cherokee), Robbie Robertson (Mohawk), Stevie Salas (Apache), Randy Castillo (Isleta Pueblo), Mildred Bailey (Couer d”Alene), “Big Chief” Russell Moore (Pima), Oscar Pettiford (Cherokee/Choctaw/African American), Peter LaFarge (Narragansett).
News From Indian Country
The steady growth of the contemporary Native music scene is becoming more visible as waves of new artists in all genres come to the forefront. Yet, much of the general public, and many Native musicians remain completely unaware of the rich history of their predecessors.
Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture is a new exhibit that opens August 7, 2010 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Featured here are the many important contributions made to contemporary music by thirteen iconic Native musicians from the 1920s to the present. Link Wray (Shawnee), Redbone, Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), Jesse Ed Davis (Kiowa/Comanche), Jimi Hendrix (African American/Cherokee), Rita Coolidge (Cherokee), Robbie Robertson (Mohawk), Stevie Salas (Apache), Randy Castillo (Isleta Pueblo), Mildred Bailey (Couer d”Alene), “Big Chief” Russell Moore (Pima), Oscar Pettiford (Cherokee/Choctaw/African American), Peter LaFarge (Narragansett).
