ABSTRACT
The topic of this paper is a new genre of song developed in the Hualapai school (Peach Springs, Arizona) 1 as a tool for teaching Hualapai language and culture. It is a genre which bears many traits of traditional Hualapai songs but also has characteristics and functions that are not traditional at all. The new genre has been influenced strongly by non-Indian culture. The songs bear features adopted from Western music, and features that reinforce modern western values; yet at the same time, the new songs express love of Hualapai land and history, and Hualapai pride and social unity. The result, then, is a form of syncretic music — a new kind of music that arises at the interface of cultures in contact.
