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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: Native California

Submitted by Maureen Russell on November 14, 2017 - 4:48pm

In 1990 Congress passed Public Law 101-343 which authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the month of November 1990 as "National American Indian Heritage Month."  Since 1995 the President has issued annual proclamations which designate November as National American Indian Heritage Month, or since 2009

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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: the Charlotte Heth collection

Submitted by Maureen Russell on May 14, 2015 - 8:28pm

Charlotte Heth has a long and distinguished history at UCLA.  In 1973, she began teaching a survey course on American Indian music.  In 1975 she completed her disseration in Ethnomusicology, "Stomp dance music of the Oklahoma Cherokee: a study of contemporary practice with special reference to the Illinois District Council Ground."  Heth was director of UCLA's

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