CHANTS ET DANSES DES SIOUX
SIOUX SONGS AND DANCES
Anthologie de la Musique des Peuples, 1977, AMP 7 2904
Danièle Vazeilles was a scholar at the university of Montpellier (France); she went to the USA in order to meet and work on the Plain Indians we call Sioux between 1969 and 1975. Those Native Americans call themselves Lakota meaning ''friendly people''.
As it is the case for the other albums of this series, D. Vazeilles wrote a presentation text which is useful if you don't know anything about Indian nations.
She attended rallies known as ''pow wow'' where Indian people can express their unity and take part in their culture through singing and dancing.
Most of the tracks are war dances (6 out of 13) sung by men and women sometimes. The album starts with the Sioux national anthem expressing Indian fidelity to the American flag despite a tragic history that saw a large indigenous people nearly disappear.
The sound level is variable at times because of the different places and time of recordings but also because she was not always close to the singers and had to adjust the recording level.
It was at the time a good way to discover this culture through a French production but other interesting albums from Canada and the USA have been available since the seventies as well with labels like Canyon Records or Everest for example.
I must say that this is a borrowed album which had two tracks damaged enough; so I replaced them with two other tracks found on Archive.org.
Text in English (and French)
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