Brown noted the absence of musical instruments as components of rituals. It indicated a rejection of Chacoan ideology, as it did not meet the needs of the people during the long great droughts. Most of the instruments she studied are part of museum collections located in the Southwest and East...
While I was in the attic, I’d noticed a stack of old records that had been taken up there to die, local R&B and gospel stuff mostly. I grabbed the one off the top (a gospel record entitled The Joy of Knowing Jesus by the Revelaires) and a...