Link Wray and his Ray Men broke into American pop music in 1958 with a loud guitar riff later characterized as the power chord, and a song that made some radio disc jockeys fearful of violence.
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MUSIC: Nakai expands the language of Native American music
Latest release makes Nakai a nine-time Grammy nominee
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Guitar afire, this Mohawk is ‘crashing this glass ceiling of being a Native artist’
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Sharel Cassity, a Juilliard-trained musician who is Cherokee and Comanche, gains a following with her distinctive talent and sound
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Ten years ago Kim Cournoyer answered an ad seeking a music teacher at the high school on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Fort Yates, N.D. An urban Indian, Cournoyer was raised in the Chicago suburbs, far from the rural reservation of her forbears, which straddles the border of North and South Dakota. But the [...]
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Jimi Hendrix meteorically rose to rock-and-roll fame playing, smashing and burning guitars, yet he never stopped talking about his Cherokee grandmother.
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Musicians and scholars hear familiar rhythms in the roots of the quintessential American art form, inspiring discussion and performances at the museum.
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