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Annotation: Primitive
12020-01-09T18:22:36+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3183plain2022-05-30T18:11:27+00:00Luca Connorsced9dd0f9f64a731c75f8e47663d30a132fa944aThis word was often used in the early 20th century by White settler colonialists to suggest not only a sense that the musical practices were "authentic" but that they belonged to Indigenous peoples who were considered less evolved than the person/s using the term. From our perspective, it is a pejorative term, both racist and ethnocentric.
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1media/zeisberg 1_thumb.jpg2020-01-07T12:55:15+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3Manuscript: Zeisberg, No.1 "Omaha Rest Song of the Leader (He dhu shka)"8Page 1 of Primitive Indian Tunes, piano transcriptions by F. J. Zeisbergmedia/zeisberg 1.jpgplain2022-05-30T17:50:59+00:001937Donation to Oberlin CollegeLuca Connorsced9dd0f9f64a731c75f8e47663d30a132fa944a