Yuman music

The Yuman are a tribe of Native Americans from what is now Southern California. Folk songs in Yuma culture are said to be given to a person while dreaming. Many individuals who are in emotional distress go to a secluded area for a few weeks, there to receive new songs (Herzog, pp. 1-6, cited in Nettl, p. 152).

ource

*Nettl, Bruno (1965). "Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents". Prentice-Hall, Inc.
*George Herzog, "Music in the Thinking of the American Indian." "Peabody Bulletin", May, 1933. Cited in Nettl (1965).

Further reading

*cite book|title=Yuman & Yaqui Music|author=Densmore, Francis|year=2005|publisher=Scholarly Press|id=ISBN 0-403-03737-9