Music and culture history among the Yurok and neighboring tribes of northwestern California.

Presents a study that isolates the various strains of substyles in a large corpus of recordings collected among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians between 190 0 and 1980 and speculates on what each seems to represent in terms of local culture history and in the broader sphere of North American Indian music. Musical analysis; Historical interpretations; The religious complex of the northern hunters; Modern ritual music and related monophonic styles; More.