Format | Audio CD |
Ordering Number | FW-34001-CCD |
Barcode | 093073400129 |
label | Smithsonian Folkways CCD |
Release date | 1/1/2012 |
Release date | 1/1/1979 |
salesrank | 12943 |
The Blackfoot, purportedly known as such because of their dark-colored moccasins, originally ranged across the northern Great Plains region (Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan). These recordings, made in different settings from the late 1890s to the mid-1960s, capture a period when Blackfoot lifestyle, culture, and music underwent major change. They also represent evolving fieldwork recording methods during those seven decades, as phonocylinders and phonowire gave way to tape recording.