Across the Americas there are many different Native cultures, each with unique musical traditions. The National Museum of the American Indian and other branches of the Smithsonian include music and ...

INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...

Whistling was never meant to belong in the classical arena. It was a sound associated with impatience, mischief, or interruption. In performance spaces shaped by discipline and reverence, whistling ...