Blackfeet music

Blackfoot music is the music of the Blackfoot people (best translated in the Blackfoot language as nitsínihki – "I sing", from nínihksini – "song"). Singing predominates and was accompanied only by percussion. Ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl proposes that Blackfoot music is an "emblem of the heroic and the difficult in Blackfoot life", with performance practices that strongly distinguish music from the rest of life. Singing is strongly distinguished from speech and many songs contain no words, and those with texts often describe important parts of myths in a succinct manner.