The Fort Library has only a few books on music. The music courses offered in the SMU-in-Taos program emphasize classical music and use materials borrowed from the Dallas campus.
Listed below are a few sources on music, dance and song, mostly ethnological studies of Native American music. The Fort library will continue to add music resources that support the SMU-in-Taos curriculum.
This brief list provides a starting point. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.
Native American
Dances of the Tewa Pueblo Indians: Expressions
of a New Life (Sweet)
Enemy Way Music: A Study of Social and
Esthetic Values as Seen in
Navaho Music (McAllester)
Guide to Native American Music Recordings
"A History of the Matachines Dance," New
Mexico Historical Review,
69:2 (April 1994)
Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
… (Fletcher)
Indian Tales from Picuris Pueblo (Harrington)
Introduction to Navaho Chant Practice
(Kluckhohn)
Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti and Zuni
Pueblos (Densmore)
Music of the American Indian: Kiowa (Rhodes)
Native American Dance: Ceremonies and
Social Traditions
Navaho Classification of Their Song Ceremonials
(Wyman)
Pawnee Music (Densmore)
Papago Music (Densmore)
Peyote Music (McAllester)
Seminole Music (Densmore)
Songs of the Tewa (Spinden)
Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama (SAR)
Yuman and Yaqui Music (Densmore)
Hispano
"Las Entriegas: Ceremonial Music and Cultural
Resistance on the Upper
Rio Grande," New Mexico
Historical Review, 65:1 (January 1990)
"Folkloric Music and Dance," Ayer y Hoy
en Taos, no. 13 (Spring 1992)
"Latino Music," New Mexico Magazine,
77:7 (July 1999)
"Spanish Operettas Stage a Comeback," New
Mexico Magazine, 67:3 (March 1989)
[Los] Tesoros del
Espiritu, Familia y Fe: A Portrait in Sound of
Hispanic New Mexico
[El] Toro Pinto and
Other Songs in Spanish
Other
Children Sing in New Mexico
"A Dancer of Spirit," [Eleanor
King, modern dance choreographer], New Mexico
Magazine, 64:2
(February 1986)
First Twenty Years of the Santa Fe Opera
(1976)
"Feet on Fire," New Mexico Magazine,
68:7 (July 1990)
"Flamenco: Festival Features Fiery Footwork,"
New
Mexico Magazine,
77:6 (June 1999)
"Jazz in the West: Cultural Frontier
and Region During the Swing Era,"
(Stowe, David W.) Western
Historical Quarterly, 23:1 (February 1992)
"María Benítez: Flamenco as
a Way of Life,"
New Mexico Magazine,
63:8 (August 1985)
"María Benítez: the Undisputed
Queen of Flamenco,"
New Mexico Magazine,
77:6 (June 1999)
Mountain Chants of the Sangre de Cristos
"Soundscape: The Musical Arts," Chapter 7
in Lore of New Mexico
"Trip the Light Fantastic: Fandangos Welcome
Outsiders to New Mexico,"
New Mexico Magazine,
77:9
(September 1999)
"The WPA Federal Music Project in New Mexico,"
New
Mexico Historical Review,
61:3 (July 1986)