You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

Ben Franklin's world is a production of the

Omaha Institute and is sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Hello and welcome to episode 343 of Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you,

learn more about how the people and events

of our early American past have shaped the present day world

we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

Over the last year or two, you've been asking for episodes about music in early America.

Well, Associate Producer Holly White and I are happy to say that we have fulfilled your request.

This episode is the first in a five episode series about music in Early America.

Each episode will show you how different cultures and peoples within early America used and created music in the course of their everyday lives.

In this episode, we joined Chad Hamill, a professor of applied indigenous studies at Northern Arizona University, and an

Ethnomeasicologist who specializes in Native American and Indigenous music.

Now during our high-level conversation about music and its importance to Native American and indigenous communities,

Chad reveals the study of ethno musicology and how it helps us understand the musical traditions of people from the past and the present,

the musical landscapes of Native North America by 1492, and the role music played and

plays in Native American life in both the past and the present.

But first, a bit about this series.

This series is meant to be a starting point for future conversations about music and musical traditions in early America.

So each episode is really meant to provide us with overview information that we can use in future

episodes.

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