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Natalie Curtis, later Natalie Curtis Burlin (26 April 1875 – 23 October 1921) was an American ethnomusicologist. Curtis, along with Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Frances Densmore, was one of a small group of women doing important ethnological studies in North America at the beginning of the 20th century.
Dec 29, 2023 · Meet Natalie Curtis: The Unsung Heroine of American Ethnomusicology In the early 20th century , when most people were jamming out to ragtime and the foxtrot, Natalie Curtis was out in the field, literally, recording the music of Native American tribes.
Oct 27, 2021 · BBC News. In 2002, music photographer Kevin Cummins was approached by a young woman after giving a talk in Manchester. He didn't immediately recognise her, but it was Natalie Curtis - the...
Natalie Curtis Burlin (born April 26, 1875, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 23, 1921, Paris, France) was an American ethnomusicologist whose interest in Native American and African-American musics extended not only to archiving but to vigorous cultural advocacy for those musical traditions.
Sep 13, 2021 · “Natalie Curtis was one of the earliest, daring women who stepped bravely into the New World at the beginning of the 20th century.” Natalie Curtis’s family, in patrician parlance, was not rich but merely well-to-do, though still gilded by lineage.
Sep 23, 2017 · Natalie Curtis was an American ethnomusicologist particularly interested in preserving American Indian and African American music by transcribing songs as accurately as possible. Her work is often recognized along with the work of Alice Fletcher and Frances Densmore as an essential contribution to the preservation of a “vanishing” culture.
Natalie Curtis was born in New York City in either 1875, according to Carl Rahkonen, or 1876, according to historian Michelle Patterson. She came from a “...close, well-connected family and relatively wealthy family…” (Patterson, 2010, 438).
Sep 20, 2023 · Natalie Curtis Burlin (1875 – 1921) was an American ethnomusicologist and musician whose work centered around preserving and archiving African-American and Native American music, art, and culture. In her 1913 article “The Perpetuating of Indian Art”, she appeals to the American governmental systems that are trying to erase Native culture ...
the story of Natalie Curtis, an early twentieth-century musical prodigy nearly broken by the rigid conventions of her era, who leaves her loving but somewhat smothering New York family to travel with her brother through the wild expanses of the American Southwest. Curtis finds her health, her voice, and her calling in
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May 14, 2018 · Natalie Curtis Burlin (1875-1921) was an American ethnomusicologist who began the movement to transcribe the traditional songs of Native American tribes. She also published a four-volume collection of African American spirituals.
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