How Indigenous Music Impacts Modern Genres

[@flordemielmedia]

Bravo! I am a fan of Sovereign Innovations and Cheyenne, and I love this episode on music, thinking of my musician family over generations. Thank you PBS of this programming, it's so beautiful to witness!

[@IGNOBLEVOIDPEEKER]

For all my Spanish and Nahuatl speakers, check out Los Cogelones. They are an Experimental Mexica Rock band, they are carrying the message, turning our attention inward, and reversing 500 years of colonial and imperial suffering. We where always here , it costs alot, it cost us too much, but we never left. MEXICA TIAHUI OMETEOTL TLAZOCAMATI A-HO!!!!!

[@pbsvoices]

Thank you for the recommendation, they're amazing. Listening now.

[@RivLoveshine]

Check out the Aztec metal band Cemican! I love them!

[@Betotlacuilo]

There is another prehispanic metal band called Tzompantli from the same musical line as Cemican

[@andrewmoyn247]

Spanish is a colonial language and culture

[@mistertellez2434]

No different than what anyone from Africa would say..

[@ecarre4588]

Thank you acknowldging the afro ingensouse and carrabiean tribal beats in this video. ❤

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Indigenous Artists in Death Metal sounds awesome!

[@musstakrakish]

Check out Black Braid

[@pbsvoices]

Isn't it?! Have you checked out some? -Chey

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@pbsvoices Not yet

[@SlickGames2-gd5jw]

Mi’Gauss

[@Def_i]

🔊🔊🔊🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Thank you for including us in your ▶️ playlist!

[@TH-hy9kr]

Love hearing new sounds! Thanks for introducing me to a new genre of music to explore.

[@starcasita]

I'm so excited to listen to this playlist!!

[@pbsvoices]

Please do, we had so much fun making it.

[@mmps18]

Love Indigenous music!

[@pbsvoices]

Right on! Do you have a favorite Indigenous band or artist? - Chey

[@PokhrajRoy.]

1:56 Swifties, are you listening?

[@pbsvoices]

*bombastic side eye* lol -Chey

[@mistertellez2434]

Anything for a white woke liberal woman to feel offended for others , especially minorities.. also indigenous women were not the drummers, it was the men.. how dare you assume gender roles..

[@Telleryn]

While there have been bands mixing old and new for a while, taking modern music and mixing in their own cultural elements, I love that we seem to be in a wave of them from all over the world getting very popular, from various European bands like Heilung, Myrkur, A Tergo Lupi, Deloraine, and Eluveitie mixing in elements of old folk music/instruments and modern music, to bands like The Hu, Bloodywood, Ummet Ozcan, Otyken, Alien Weaponry, and a bunch more bringing their own non-European cultures into metal for a much-needed shot in the arm for the metal scene. I've found it fascinating, some of the similarities in ancient sounds, and, seeing a lot of people react to them, particularly Heilung, how they're able to stir something in people who have no connection to that particular culture, you end up with great videos like 'Vikings and Native Americans dance in unity at Heilung concert'

[@pbsvoices]

Truly amazing to see the connection between the two groups, Heilung's Hamrer Hippyer has some comparisons to Inuit throat singers

[@jasonGamesMaster]

Folk metal has been a favorite for decades, and I'm so glad that bands like Orphaned Land, Black Kirin, and Camaxtli Yoxippa have not just become more popular, but they have influenced legions of bands to follow in their wake and bring their culture into the (largely, mostly) understanding and friendly metal space and share it with the world.

[@gasoline10head]

also check out Blackbraid

[@pbsvoices]

Will do! -Chey

[@EG_Ojibway]

Great piece on Indigenous musicians and traditional roots in modern genres. Personal shout out to artists like Rita Coolidge who while technically folk, I felt got a little bit of rock in her songs too at times.

[@ThaliaPeebles-eu7gn]

My dad also is a drummer!

[@joanneb8711]

Here are some native artists that I like: R. CARLOS Nakai is a flautist Joanne Shenandoah has an amazing voice Jeff Ball combines flute and something more pop -y Crown Lands has a native band member and the music has strong Rush vibes If anyone knows any good indigenous power metal bands, let me know!

[@pbsvoices]

Thank you for the recommendations, We have Joanne Shenandoah on our Indigenous Excellence Playlist. Listening to Crown Lands now, so awesome!

[@tecpaocelotl]

Good video. I like the playlist. I may be old or a music fan, but I feel like you're missing inspiration like Floyd Westerman. Also, Jesse Ed Davis, but he mostly performed guitar for famous artists. Blackfire was the native punk band that got me into punk. Lol. Redbone's music got me influenced to be in a band, but that's another story.

[@pbsvoices]

I'm listening to Blackfire right now! Man, really reminds me of classic early punk but the lyrics and some of the other ways they infuse traditional sounds and struggles is what gives it that Native punch up. Def listening to more of them! -Chey

[@tecpaocelotl]

@pbsvoices I have been a big native music fan, and I tried to get as many cds into my collection when I was in my late teens and 20s. It's probably some rare ones if I look in my collection. I just need to look in my closet. Lol. This may show my age: I'm a big hip-hop fan. I was the moderator to War Party's MySpace music page. They're Cree. They split up and do solo stuff now. Then there's Litefoot. People may know him as the Indian in the Cupboard or Nightwolf in Mortal Kombat Annihilation, but he did rap. Then Crystal Lightning and her husband Red Cloud, which when they team up, they're LightningCloud.

[@Artersa]

@@tecpaocelotlLitefoot!! I never knew that dude made rap, l love it.

[@tecpaocelotl]

@@Artersa 90s was a crazy time.

[@StarLightNow]

Those teen angst pictures are incredible. Feel like all of us emo kids have them someplace. The playlist is great and I have already added many new bands to my followed artists list on Spotify. Thanks for the great video :)

[@octaviusv]

The biggest news I've heard recently is Q Pop from Lenin Tamayo, fusing K Pop with Quechua lyrics and sensibilities.

[@pbsvoices]

Wow. L E N I N is amazing, love the infusion.

[@Windds]

There’s a San Diego reggae band called Tribal Seeds they recently made an album called Ancient Blood. They brought Mayan, Latina Americans, Jamaican/ Afro centric artists on it. It’s a great album.

[@mynameisnotcory]

Started with indigenous dearh metal, and theres so many other cool genres out there too 😎

[@nidhug9115]

Thanks for making the playlist! Def going to be enjoying that for a while

[@mattyisforlovers]

Musician/Artist/Group profiles and interviews would be cool. I'd also love to hear about some of the artists that are recognized musically but not known to be naitive. No idea about Hendrix, a great excuse to relisten! This channel is gonna be great.

[@KevinMamea-i9c]

What's the song at 7:46?????

[@colinleat8309]

Rock on my fellow drummer!! Love this channel. Thanks so much for expanding my knowledge and gratitude for the human cultural spectrum 👍... Metal rules! 🤘🤣. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦🕊️

[@pbsvoices]

Rock on! 🤘🏽

[@HyrimBot]

run to the hills!!!!! adapt!! survive!! we are still here.

[@boohoo-t6c]

I LOVE THIS ❤❤❤

[@pbsvoices]

Aaaaaggghhh! I'm so happy you did! What stood out for you, I'm dying to know!! -Chey

[@boohoo-t6c]

@@pbsvoices The Indigenous representation, as Indigenous people we don't get enough thank you for these videos❤

[@El_Nerdo_Loco-ol2vd]

There's also The Halluci Nation and DJ Shub, who are amazing powow step/electro powow, and they SLAAAAAP

[@NBM3]

I made a comment about Link Wray and how happy I was that he's included in this video . But now it's not here. My late Phisysist grandfather is appreciating the science link !!!

[@tullaholicful]

Supaman is one of my all time favs.

[@talscorner3696]

It only makes sense that, if European bands have incorporated elements of the medieval, renaissance and later musical traditions into their metal, so have the Native nations ^^ Let's go!

[@RivLoveshine]

She should check out the Aztec metal band Cemican! I love them!

[@Pou1gie1]

I find it odd that in these discussions NO one ever talks about Anthony Keidis, who is probably one of the most famous native musician in modern times. Also, I watched RUMBLE, and I felt disheartened that it took a strange stance of wanting to pit Black ppl against Native ppl and vice versa. It felt a little like a colonial divide and conquer-ish for me.

[@kennethmartinez8731]

Because nobody cares about 2% blood

[@waskerbasket9601]

Im native and a musician as well. Stop it. Stop. Every culture is essential to all music. Ours isnt any more special than any other. This identity nonsense has hone far enough. Everything you talk about is universal to all cultures. Stop. This is annoying. You marginalize yourself with yourself with a victim mentality.

[@np4231]

Yes sir.

[@SlickGames2-gd5jw]

Why doesn’t your playlist have Mi’Gauss? Thawikila Shawnee death Metal

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"….and blach mettal, sei Blackbraid, II bieliew."

[@landback1491]

Thank you!

[@orionsage7314]

Whoa, this is awesome.

[@jamesleonard2870]

Awesome! 🌊🏄‍♂️🪷

[@HenriettaHudson-we4wv]

I hear more Indigenous music from Canada than the US!!!

[@Civilwar.relics]

Try the Scandinavian version it's awesome, Heilung i just saw them tour are a proto germanic ritualistic type band, the local tribe of Cherokee practiced in the show and smudged the stage and band while playing a ceremonial flute song, they also dance and played drums together. And wardruna most should like if they like primitive type music

[@josephr.a.d.4560]

So helpful!

[@nichoudha]

Only minor criticisms I have is perhaps sticking to Indigenous Native American examples since Hendrix was Irish and African within his roots. And while it's cool to have music from Irish and African ancestry, it's not reflective of Native American influences in music per the topic of this video. Also, checking the known legacy of Ancient Mississippian cultural artefacts, the flutes used by Native Americans have been around since at least 700 AD, probably far, far longer since 700 AD is just the earliest that could be recovered that remain intact even if the modernized form used today was created and more "standardized" in the 1800s. Apart from that, I find this to be a good video.

[@nichoudha]

Oh my favorite band with an Indigenous singer is Corporate Avenger. Lol

[@missbehave665]

Check out Sunburnt Stone...

[@elconejito99]

Check out Culture Resistant (crust punk )

[@c-allanwats4239]

snotty nose rez kids are awesome

[@kateflanagan9355]

Thanks for the playlist I feel like I mostly see indigenous artists in the hip hop genre of these days and hip-hop's not my musical cup of tea😁 can't wait to check out more of the rock oriented groups that you've listed

[@lylyluvda916]

I’ve been waiting for this one for a minute. I’m glad it’s here ❤

[@pbsvoices]

What did you think of the episode? This one felt so personal for me, and writing that ending about my childhood/teenage experiences got me feeling so emotional. -Chey

[@lylyluvda916]

@@pbsvoices I think the episode was great! I also felt a large disconnect to the community/scene at my school but for different reasons. TLDR: my mother did not want me to dress in all black, get piercing, etc. which has led me to learn more about how religion (and the forced assimilation) has impacted/changed native culture still very present in certain areas. For example, La danza de Los viejitos (the dance of old men) has had its meaning changed when religion came into the picture (Michoacán). I think that’s why I’ve found this content so impactful for me. Like, this history isn’t taught. It’s up to us, the generations after that have to share it so people don’t forget, or learn it for the first time, in some cases. I don’t care if it takes weeks, months to have more relatable content, I just am happy it’s being made.

[@pbsvoices]

@@lylyluvda916 I hear you on that, and I definitely do think that colonial assimilation is part of the reason for some resistance to punk/rock/metal scenes--but obviously not the entire picture. Thank you for sharing your experiences and for your enthusiasm for this work. That's why me and the team are doing it! -Chey

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

I think of cool wicked bad a$$, native rock and roll. I honestly think of the band The Colt

[@pbsvoices]

The film "Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World" features a pretty remarkable history of our impact on rock, I highly recommend checking it out! -Chey

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

@@pbsvoices Yeah okay hell yeah of course I'll check that out

[@cvx8279]

No one cares. Also everyone is native to where they are from

[@porflepopnecker4376]

This is all a bunch of silly nonsense.

[@asiachen-hutson3668]

Why are you doing the devil's sign on a PBS show I always thought PBS was a safe place I'm very disappointed 😔☹️

[@gaycryptidhours]

Don't let fear poison your perceptions.

[@JS-ll5gk]

Hey so your 9th century conception of theistic internalized forever punishment bolted onto a three thousand year old extrapolation of a Sumerian river god isn't real and you should maybe calm down about it.

[@KevinMamea-i9c]

Ifw cheynne

[@mistertellez2434]

YALL TRY TO HARD TO MAKE EVERYTHING SEEM OPPRESSED OR SEEM TO WANT TO CREDIT EVERYTHING AWAY FROM THE WHITE MAN.. YOU TRIED..

[@joriankell1983]

Nothing but buzzwords and fluff from people acting like stereotypes of themselves. Cringe.

[@Morningstar_Actual]

Enough