First Beats: Indigenous Hip-Hop
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording
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content: 2024 June 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0628_IVA_FourDirections_0007
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copy available
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content: Angela Gladue "Bgirl Lunacee" (Presenter); Cristofer Collio "Ketrafe" (guitar, vocals, NaciÛn Mapuche); Jaime Cuyanao Venegas "Waikil" (percussion, trutruke, vocals, Mapuche); Justin Michael Abraham (drums); Matt Beach (guitar, director); Doc Native (vocals, Seminole Tribe of Florida); Kevin Philips (bass); Spencer Battiest (vocals, Seminole Tribe of Florida); Makai (vocals); Chris Stylez (vocals, beat box) Artists from North and South America challenge popular perceptions of "Native music" and hip-hop. The show features brothers Doc Native and Spencer Battiest (Seminole/Choctaw) from the Seminole Nation in Florida, and Mapuche rapper Waikil with guitarist Ketrafe from Santiago, Chile. The concert is emceed by  Miss Chief Rocka.