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NEW FILM FEATURES NATIVE MUSIC ICONS


A BY LEONDA LE VCHU K


missing chapter in the history of American music is coming to the screen in a feature-length documentary film. RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the


World, about the Native contribution to popular music, will premiere at the Sundance Festival in 2016. The film is the work of Rezolution Pictures,


which also made the Peabody Award–winning documentary Reel Injun. It features interviews with music icons talking about some of their largest Native individual influences. RUMBLE springs from a partnership


between guitarist Stevie Salas (Mescalero Apache) and Tim Johnson (Mohawk), as- sociate director for Museum programs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Mu- seum of the American Indian. The two col- laborated on the wildly popular exhibition Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians In Popular Culture, on view at the Museum in Washington, D.C., from July 1, 2010, to Jan. 2, 2011, and in New York City from Aug. 4, 2012, to Aug. 11, 2013. Up Where We Belong celebrated a century


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in which Native people have had success- ful and influential careers in virtually every form of popular music. The exhibition told the stories of these musicians and provided visitors the opportunity to discover the art- ists with whom these exceptional musicians collaborated and hear their music. Visitors also learned of the musical greats who in- spired these artists, as well as the growing number of contemporary performers who follow in their path. “Whether they basked in the limelight or


played supporting roles, Native musicians have made an enormous contribution to American music as we know it today,” says Museum Director Kevin Gover (Pawnee). “They forged new sounds, worked with some of the greatest names in the music industry and inspired current Native and non-Native


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