Nez Perce recording of CJ discovered -- Followup: Location of Music Downloads

[Erik]

Re: Nez Perce recording of CJ discovered
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A161481


Klahowya Sikhs,

It's a great article, well worth the time to read.  But finding the actual 
music is hard to do.  The article said go to the front page for the music, 
but on the front page, the only thing obvious is a link back to the article. 
After going around in circles for awhile -- and finding/reading lots of 
other great stories on that site too!   I finally found where the music is 
and thought I would post the link here to save people from a lengthy search. 
The location is not obvious.

But there is one catch, the Sam Morris colletion is not actually online. 
However, it is still worth going to because they do have other closely 
related music online.

[quote]
While the songs from the Sam Morris Collection are technically public 
domain, we are choosing to respect the Nez Perce Tribe's wishes and not 
publish them online at this time -- though that might change in the coming 
weeks.
[end quote]

But go anyway because they have some good music recorded by  Alice Fletcher 
(1897)  and Herbert Spinden (1907).   Here is the link to the music files:

http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A161453


-- Erik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: Nez Perce recording of CJ discovered


> The following is excerpted from the "Boise Weekly", May 3, 2006.  --  Dave 
> R
>
>
> MAY 3, 2006
> Old, Weird Idaho
> Hearken to Idaho's earliest recordings, and meet the players who want you
> to listen back even further
>
> BY NICHOLAS COLLIAS
>
>
> "THIS IS SAM MORRIS TALKING"
>
> Dr. Loran Olsen has spent over 30 years cataloging and recording Nez Perce
> music, but he still only calls it his "hobby." While Olsen is perhaps the
> pre-eminent academic authority on Nez Perce music--indeed, my calls to
> various tribal agencies all resulted in referrals back to him--he says
> professional distance is essential to his authority.
>
> .... realized that the cylinders
> were "a priceless collection" of long-unheard Nez Perce music.
>.......
> "This is Sam Morris talking. He is saying: 'This is the way that the 
> people
> played or had fun. This is a great feeling to know. Now the war dancers
> will take a moment of rest. All of you ladies, sing along. Take part in 
> the
> singing. All you women, sing loud."
>
>.....................
> Morris's recordings, it should be noted, aren't the first musical
> recordings made in Idaho, or even the first recordings of Nez Perce music.
> Those titles go to ethnographer Herbert Spinden, who visited the Nez Perce
> village of Lapwai in 1907 and made 37 cylinder recordings, and famed
> anthropologist Alice Fletcher, who recorded Chief Joseph singing mournful
> war songs with other tribe members in Washington, D.C., in 1897.
>

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