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Navajo Corn-Grinding Song

Navajo Corn-Grinding Song
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Many Native American groups developed songs to accompany work and social rituals. For example, the Navajo have traditional songs for corn grinding, games, social dances, and other occasions. This corn-grinding song includes vocables (syllables without meaning). Corn-grinding songs are rarely performed today because cornmeal is bought in stores.
"Navajo Corn Song" from the film A Weave of Time, directed by Susan Fanshel, produced by Susan Fanshel with Deborah Gordon and John Adair ©1987 ©1990 DCL Direct Cinema. All Rights Reserved. www.directcinema.com.
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Music; Native Americans of North America; Navajo (people)
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