A Cry From the Earth : Music of the North American Indians.

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Call Number: CD Folk Cry
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Folk Cry	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact disc.
Sung in native languages.
Originally released as FA 37777.
Paddling song (2:09) -- Raven song (1:26) -- To quiet a raging storm (:31) -- It was a very lovely day when the water was calm (:40) -- A dance song of the night chant (2:14) -- Father, have pity on me (:59) -- Yellow light from sun is streaming (:52) -- Sleep song (1:29) -- A song of the wildcat dance (1:16) -- One wind (1:47) -- Modern love song (1:00) -- A song of the drum dance (:36) -- Pleasure dance (:29) -- Dance song (1:31) -- Lullaby (1:18) -- Lullaby (:48) -- The elf's song (:42) -- Power song of the eagle (1:19) -- Dream song (1:00) -- A song of the flute ceremony (1:07) -- Clear the way (1:56) -- Farewell to the warriors (1:08) -- Song for a woman who was brave in war (:35) -- Flute call (:57) -- Lonesome flute (:43) -- I have found my lover (:20) -- Flute song (1:13) -- Mourning song for a brother (2:19) -- Inviting-in dance song (:50) -- When I met him approaching (:58) -- Peyote song (:56) -- Methodist hymn (:37) -- Kiowa guord dance with captured U.S. Army bugler (1:12).

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Mostly of scholarly interest submitted by acm on December 18, 2022, 4:29am The insert with the CD says that many of these are fragments rather than complete pieces and that they weren't edited. There aren't better quality versions in the depths of the Smithsonian, at least not as far as the Smithsonian knows. There's a lot of static and burble from the slowly degrading recording materials (tapes just don't last that long) and probably from the poor quality of the recording equipment; it's worse than on any other Folkways album I've tried. I'm not clear as to if the fragments are all that could still be played from the originals or if they're all that was recorded.

Listening to it is a lot like trying to decipher one of those partially reconstructed papyrus scrolls, the ones made of fragments with lots of gaps. I don't have the knowledge/context to understand what I'm hearing. I hope the recordings have reached the families of those whose performances are recorded here.