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Navajo children's songs are usually about animals, such as pets and livestock. Some songs are about family members, and about chores, games, and other activities as well. It usually includes anything in a child's daily life. A child may learn songs from an early age from the mother. As a baby, if the
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The Navajo music scene is perhaps one of the strongest in native music today. In the past, Navajo musicians were corralled into maintaining the status quo of traditional music, chants and/or flute compositions. Today, Navajo bands span the genres of punk, metal, hardcore, hip hop, blues, rock, death
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In earlier times, Navajo children may have sung songs like these to themselves while sheepherding, to pass the time. Sheep were, and still are, a part of Navajo life. Back then, giving a child custody of the entire herd was a way to teach them leadership and responsibility, for one day they would
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In children's songs, a short chant usually starts off the song, followed by at least one stanza of lyrics, and finishing up with the same chant. All traditional songs include chants, and are not made up solely of lyrics. There are specific chants for some types of songs as well. Contemporary
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It may have been a kind of beginner's course in learning the songs and prayers for self-protection from bad things, skinwalkers, and other evil figures in Navajo traditions. Blessings, such as when one does with corn pollen in the early morning, may be learned as well.
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Today throughout the Navajo Nation, many families play the Navajo Shoegame. At times, local communities play against each other during the winter season. There are also many prominent Navajo Shoegame singers throughout the Navajo Nation. Notably the Nez family of
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children's songs, however, such as Christmas songs and Navajo versions of nursery rhymes, may have lyrics only. Today, both types of songs may be taught in elementary schools on the reservation, depending on the knowledge and ability of the particular teacher.
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child cries, the mother will sing to it while it's tied in the cradleboard. Navajo songs are rhythmic, and therefore soothing to a baby. Thus, songs are a major part of Navajo culture.
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The longest ceremonies may last up to ten days and nights while performing rituals that restore the balance between good and evil, or positive and negative forces. The
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while the holy songs are preserved of their sacredness by reserving it only for ceremonies (and thus not featured on the recording listed at bottom).
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In recent years, the Navajo metal scene has been growing rapidly underground. This growing metal scene is discussed in the book,
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Members of the Navajo Song & Dance singing group "Cross Canyon Echoes" sing for a charity event in Window Rock, Arizona.
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Travis Friday, lead guitarist, lead vocalist and the songwriter for the Navajo country band Stateline
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In recent years, a modernized version of peyote songs have been popularized by Verdell Primeaux, a
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probably own a herd of their own. A child, idle while the sheep grazed, may sing to pass the time.
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holy songs, the "complex and comprehensive" spiritual literature of the Navajo, may be considered
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in the style and including lyrics of the chorus. Lyrics, songs, groups, and topics include
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Frisbie, Charlotte J.; Tso, Eddie (1993). "The Navajo Ceremonial Practitioners Registry".
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metal, black metal, stoner rock, country, and even traditional. Success of bands like
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to octave and a half. Structurally, the songs are created from the complex
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McAllester, David P. (1981). "New Perspectives in Native American Music".
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McAllester, David P.; Mitchell, Douglas F. (1983). "Navajo Music". In
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Long ago when the animals roamed the earth they came together to play
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Residents of Fort Defiance, Arizona play a round of Navajo Shoegame.
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Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene (2020)
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