{"id":40817,"date":"2015-04-10T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40817"},"modified":"2015-04-10T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T20:20:15","slug":"mashpee-musician-produces-documentary-about-native-african-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40817","title":{"rendered":"Mashpee Musician Produces Documentary About Native, African Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capenews.net\/mashpee\/news\/mashpee-musician-produces-documentary-about-native-african-music\/article_63a89f94-9d9b-11e4-b6b8-2364134f8bf3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mashpee Musician Produces Documentary About Native, African Music<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capenews.net\" target=\"_blank\">CapeNews.net<\/a><br \/>\nFalmouth, Massachusetts<br \/>\n2015-01-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Houghton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umassd.edu\/cas\/english\/faculty\/morganpeters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan J. Peters<\/a>, a <a href=\"Mashpee%20\" target=\"_blank\">Mashpee<\/a> troubadour in Afro-Native-American-inspired music, with his band the Groovalottos, is on his way to producing a full-length album as well as a documentary. The \u201cmini-film\u201d will explore the combination of black and Native American music and how their blend gave rise to traditional and contemporary blues and funk.<\/p>\n<p>The film, Mr. Peters said, will be the first of its kind. While there have been several films about folk music, mostly Euro-American, he said none have been produced exploring the \u201cBlack Indian\u201d music experience.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Peters said that traditional Native American music has influenced such musicians as James Brown as well as contemporary and traditional blues music&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capenews.net\/mashpee\/news\/mashpee-musician-produces-documentary-about-native-african-music\/article_63a89f94-9d9b-11e4-b6b8-2364134f8bf3.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mashpee Musician Produces Documentary About Native, African Music CapeNews.net Falmouth, Massachusetts 2015-01-19 Sam Houghton Morgan J. Peters, a Mashpee troubadour in Afro-Native-American-inspired music, with his band the Groovalottos, is on his way to producing a full-length album as well as a documentary. The \u201cmini-film\u201d will explore the combination of black and Native American music and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,3015,20],"tags":[19857,19858,19852,19853,19855,19856,1392,19854],"class_list":["post-40817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-capenews-net","tag-groovalottos","tag-mashpee","tag-morgan-j-peters","tag-morgan-james-peter","tag-morgan-peter","tag-music","tag-sam-houghton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}