{"id":2959,"date":"2013-02-27T04:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2013-03-06T04:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:34:38","slug":"yakutat-tlingit-backstage-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/yakutat-tlingit-backstage-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Tlingit Songs Accompanied by Ukelele"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clarissa and her ukelele – which, by the way, was purchased at Hawaii Music Supply…<\/p><\/div>\n

Who woulda thought I’d be playing Tlingit songs with the sounds of a ukelele?\u00a0 Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later…!<\/p>\n

I learned this song in 1972 from Harry K. Bremner, Sr., who then was in his mid-80’s.\u00a0 He said I had the rights to sing this song because our clan, the T’akDein Taan Black-legged Kittywake had branched down from the Coho Clan on the Alsek River near Yakutat – the Coho who are the owners of this song.<\/p>\n

Here I sing with the ukelele accompanying just a shortened version.<\/p>\n

YakutatBackStage<\/a><\/p>\n

The following is a shortened version of a T’akDeinTaan song written by J.K. Smith; my sister Irene Jean Lampe discovered this song on an old recording of clan elders.\u00a0 I play a shortened version (without any of the words):<\/p>\n

J.K.SmithSong<\/a><\/p>\n

My very first song I wrote called “Shifting Shanks” – It’s influenced by “spaghetti western” sound, like a combination of “cowboys and indians” – the song is about not being aware of our Western privileges; we have so many freedoms many other countries do not have…we are born with “silver suspenders…”<\/p>\n

ShiftingShanks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Who woulda thought I’d be playing Tlingit songs with the sounds of a ukelele?\u00a0 Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later…! I learned this song in 1972 from Harry K. Bremner, Sr., who then was in his mid-80’s.\u00a0 He said I had the rights to sing this song because our clan, the T’akDein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,19,50],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts-and-plays","category-honoring-others","category-tlingit-cultural-events","tag-alaskan-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}