Frances Densmore was born on May 21, 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. Trained in piano, organ, and harmony at the Oberlin Conservatory and in counterpoint at Harvard University, Densmore began studying ...

A member of the Chippewa tribe helped create a recording of American Indian music with Frances Densmore. (The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

No. 1 investigator of U. S. Indian music is a spry, 71-year-old, grey-haired woman, Frances Densmore.

If you stroll through the stacks of a reasonably well-stocked academic music library, you will almost certainly stumble across a whole block of books devoted to Native American music, all ...

Series 2: Correspondence with Frances Densmore and Others includes .6 linear feet of correspondence between Geoffrey O'Hara and Frances Densmore from 1926 to 1957. The majority of the letters are from ...

One of those voices belonged to Frances Densmore, an ethnomusicologist who visited the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the early 20th century.

This particular photograph, from 1916, depicts Frances Densmore, a Smithsonian anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Mountain Chief, a Blackfoot Indian, sitting in front of the ...

The Densmore/Lakota Songs Repatriation Project is named for ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore of Red Wing, Minnesota, who visited Standing Rock from 1911-14 and recorded traditional songs on a ...

Miss FRANCES DENSMORE, who has recently returned to Washington from Florida, reports a somewhat unusual attitude of aloofness towards the whites and their civilisation on the part of the Seminole ...

This year's United Tribes Technical College International Powwow Week in Bismarck will feature the unveiling of a project that aims to revive Native songs. The Densmore/Lakota Songs Repatriation ...