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This book looks at the history and role of the Hollywood film industry as a generator of a stereotyped Native American culture and, consequently, also a stereotyped Native American music. The widely acclaimed epic Dances With Wolves serves as an illustrative model because it is perhaps one of Hollywood´s most celebrated endeavours to portray a fairly realistic picture of Native American life - which is their culture and music. Will this cultural and musical "reality", however, stand ethnomusicological scrutiny?

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Marion Kusterle is teacher of English and Music Education for secondary higher education in Austria. Her interest in Native American culture began in her early teens and was the reason for the subject of her final thesis at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

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