More Chinook music

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Last fall Scott Ford told me about a phonograph record he found in his
library.  I don't know if it includes any Chinook Jargon songs, but it
includes recordings of the Jargon speaker Mungo Margin.  I haven't heard
it yet, but I located it in the Multnomah Co. card catalog, and it is a
Folkways record from about 20 years ago, perhaps hard to find, but
certainly around.


    DYNIX #    953724

      TITLE    Kwakiutl : Indian music of the Pacific Northwest / sound
               recording collected, recorded and annotated by Ida
               Halpern.

  PUBLISHER    New York : Ethnic Folkways Records, c1981.

   DESCRIPT    2 sound discs (74 min.) : 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.

     SERIES     1) Ethnic Folkways library

      NOTES     1) Booklet (51 p. : ill., music ; 22 cm.) laid in
              container.

               2) "The songs on these recordings were selected from a
               group of over 500...collected from 1947 to...1981." Cf.
               booklet.

   CONTENTS    Wolf cycle (A,B,C) / Mungo Martin (05:30)--Raven / Billy
               Assu (01:14)--Hagok / Tom Willie (04:41)--Hagok / Billy
               Assu (01:26)--Mountain goat / Mungo Martin
               (02:44)--Mountain goat / Tom Willie (04:21)--Hamatsa
               [songs] / Stanley Hunt (03:22); Billy Assu (02:25;
               01:10); Mungo Martin (04:44 ; 04:07; 04:10)--Bukwas (A,B)
               (07:15) ; Thunderbird (05:25) / Tom
               Willie.--Sea Eagle (03:07) ; Stone Body (06:59) / Mungo
               Martin.--Love song (02:09) ; Potlatch (02:05 ; 02:10) ;
               Whale (06:06)--Potlatch (01:25) ; Tugwid dance (01:00) ;
               Nimkish dance (01:29) / Billy Assu.--Madem / Tom Willie
               (04:13)


On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:14:46 -0800, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Here's a source for Jargon music that I don't recall learning of from this
>list:  Swan,  James G.  "The Northwest coast; or, three years' residence
>in Washington Territory."  New York:  Harper and Brothers, 1857.  Page
>201:  'Indian woman's song to her husband who absents himself.'  Various
>other songs are included.
>
>Best,
>Dave
>
>
>
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