Tewa Recordings 1957

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Tewa Recordings 1957

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Music and interviews recorded by the anthropologist Gertrude Kurath in 1957 at Santa Fe and San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, now known by its earlier name, Ohkay Owingeh. The recordings contain group singing performances of Deer Dance Songs, Yellow Corn Dance Songs, Butterfly Dance Songs, and interviews on these songs and general Tewa music and dance terminology with primary consultant, Antonio Garcia. Additional Deer Dance Songs given by David Garcia.

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Kurath, Hans, 1891-1992

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Garcia, Antonio.

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Garcia, Antonio, Jr.

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Garcia, David

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Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch.

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Gertrude Prokosch Kurath (1903-1992) was educated at Bryn Mawr College (MA, 1928, History of Art) and at the Yale University School of Drama (1929-1930). She received extensive training in music practice and theory, and in several systems of art dance as well as folk dancing, in Germany and the United States. From 1923-1946, she was an active teacher of modern dance, as a concert performer with the stage name Tula, and as a producer of pageants and dance dramas. In the mid-1940s, she turned her ...