THE LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY HOSTS HUMANITIES MONTANA SPEAKERS BUREAU PROGRAM “AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC: MORE THAN JUST DRUMS & FLUTES” WITH SCOTT PRINZING
March 30, 2015 (Helena, MT)—Your Lewis & Clark Library will host Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program “American Indian Music: More Than Just Drums & Flutes” with Scott Prinzing on Monday, April 20, 2015. The program will be in the Large Meeting Room of the Library at 7 PM. The presentation is free and open to the public. Partial funding for the Speakers Bureau program is provided by a legislative grant from Montana’s Cultural Trust and from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Many Montanans associate American Indian music with powwow drumming or the Native American flute. Varieties of both of these musical forms are important to Indians all across America. However, Indians have also contributed to American music in virtually every major genre of music, including traditions often associated with distinctly non-Indian ethnic groups like rap, reggae, and country western. This presentation looks at the history and development of Indian music from the traditional to the contemporary and explores a broad spectrum of American Indian music ranging from blues to folk, country to gospel, and heavy metal to hip-hop. You may be surprised by how many of your favorite musicians are American Indians.
Scott Prinzing is director of education and coordinator of music and Native American programming for MusEco Media and Education Project in Billings, Mont. He is a certified elementary teacher who has taught media literacy, American Indian history and culture, and the history of rock ‘n’ roll. He has freelanced as a music journalist, radio deejay and producer for over 25 years. He produced the teacher’s handbook and compilation CD, American Indian Music: More Than Just Drums and Flutes, for Montana’s Office of Public Instruction, and has presented to innumerable teachers, students and the public on this topic. He performs and records with his wife, Kris, in the progressive folk duo, Earthshine. He is also known as TV’s Green Man in the Green Smarts with the Green Man series.
For more information, please call the Lewis & Clark Library at 447-1690 or log onto www.lclibrary.org.
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