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Article: Weavings: Native Women's Music, Poetry, and Performance as Resistance.
- Article from:
- Women & Music
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
- Author:
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USING WHATEVER HIDE, FUR, PLANT material, or fabric that was available, native women(1) have woven intricate patterns since ancient times.(2) Currently, this represents an activity of both necessity and artistic expression. As a metaphor, weaving reveals the creativity of women of oppressed cultures as they respond to their own inner impulses and to the oppressor culture.(3) Woven into this creative fabric are the threads of the 1960s civil rights movement, the women's movement and American Indian movement of the 1970s, and the recent explosion of accessible music technology. As an expression of lived experience, music contributes its own threads, both in Western, ...
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