The “Indianist” musical movement started around 1900 with parlor songs and operettas written by non-Natives in what they considered to be an Indian style. The influences came from ethnomusicologists working mostly in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and California. You can hear hints of it in big band music of the 40s (“Sing, Sing, Sing”), early Disney (Peter Pan) and television (Howdy Doody). Technically, non-traditional music made by non-Natives using Native motifs, rhythms and tonalities, like most of the tracks here, are also “Indianist.”
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The “Indianist” musical movement started around 1900 with parlor songs and operettas written by non-Natives in what they considered to be an Indian style. The influences came from ethnomusicologists working mostly in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and California. You can hear hints of it in big band music of the 40s (“Sing, Sing, Sing”), early Disney (Peter Pan) and television (Howdy Doody). Technically, non-traditional music made by non-Natives using Native motifs, rhythms and tonalities, like most of the tracks here, are also “Indianist.”