The barren region ranging from Siberia across Alaska and Canada into Greenland presents a constant struggle for survival for the people of the Far North who call it home. Their music includes dance songs, hunting songs, game songs, animal calls, animal stories, and story songs. Most have no instrumental accompaniment. Laura Boulton (1899-1980), an American ethnomusicologist who recorded the music on this album, studied music all around the world, from Africa and Eastern Europe to the South Pacific and the Arctic Circle.
14 Dance Songs: I Am Lonesome; When I Feel Like Singing, I Sing; I Am Waiting for the Boat to Come; Jumping Skin Song; I Will Show You the Way; It Was a Very Lovely Day When the Water Was Calm
15 Story Songs: Boy Resting By the River; Nooneedle Bird; Man Who Was Not a Good Hunter
16 Dance Song
17 Inviting-In Dance Song
18 Dance Song
19 Dance Song
The barren region ranging from Siberia across Alaska and Canada into Greenland presents a constant struggle for survival for the people of the Far North who call it home. Their music includes dance songs, hunting songs, game songs, animal calls, animal stories, and story songs. Most have no instrumental accompaniment. Laura Boulton (1899-1980), an American ethnomusicologist who recorded the music on this album, studied music all around the world, from Africa and Eastern Europe to the South Pacific and the Arctic Circle.
