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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.
Apr 23, 2024 · 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.
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Burlin, Natalie Curtis. 1907. “The Indians' book an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race.” New York: Harper. Curtis, Natalie. “A Plea for Our Native Art.” The Musical Quarterly 6, no. 2 (1920): 175–78. Curtis, Natalie.
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. Her work helped preserve the folk songs of both groups.
Natalie Curtis Burlin. Share. 134. Natalie Curtis Burlin, an amateur ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, folklorist, and a descendant of the prominent Curtis and Burrill families of Providence, was born in New York City on April 26, 1876.
Oct 23, 2023 · Natalie Curtis Burlin, a white ethnomusicologist and composer from New York, and Angel De Cora, a Winnebago artist from Nebraska, were two educated women who lived at the same time period and had a shared interest in the lives of Native Americans.
American musicologist and student of Native American and African-American music. Born Natalie Curtis in New York City on April 26, 1875; died in Paris, France, on October 23, 1921; attended the National Conservatory of Music, New York; married Paul Burlin (a painter), July 1917.
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