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American Indigenous Music

This guide is a curated selection of resources for appreciating and researching Native American music of North America.

Academic Writings and Encyclopedias

Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements
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Encyclopedia of Native American Music in North America
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Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
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Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies
Native American Indigenous Studies Association Journal
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The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More than a Century of recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet
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WorldCat
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
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Music Online: American Music
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Oxford Music Online
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