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Show BARBARA TEDLOCK The Corn Kernel composers are also introducers of new melodies. In looking for new melodies, Zunis have for generations borrowed tunes from other Pueblos. On trips to Hopi, Zuni men are always trying to "catch the tune" and bring it back to Zuni. Several of the younger men in the Corn Kernel group borrow tunes from non- Pueblo sources as well. For instance, in 1971, one of the Comanche Coming Songs was borrowed from the Ute Bear Dance performed the previous year at the Gallup Ceremonial. Some melodic borrowings come from Western music, for example the "Limbo Rock" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." However, if and when the audience realizes the sources of these melodies, they are quite disappointed. As one Zuni put it, "People like it until they figure out about it later, after listening to their tapes. Then they know it's just a rock tune. They disapprove of this, but it's too late, they already danced with it." To date, borrowed Western melodies have only been used in a very limited way in the Log Drum genre of Dance Songs. This genre is the most recent one at Zuni, and the two types of dances within this genre known to have used Western melodies are avowedly Plains borrowings. These borrowed tunes appear only within the Coming and Going Songs of the Comanche and Apache Dances. These ?i-naka tena-we, 'Coming Songs', and ?a-naka te-na- we, 'Going Songs', are simple, two-part songs consisting of a "coming out" section sung over and over again while the group walks from one plaza or house to another, and a "talking about" section, sung just before they enter or leave the dance house or plaza. The borrowed melodies in the main Dance Songs in the Log Drum genre, however, are not from outside sources. Instead, they come from Zuni Medicine Society Songs which are quite different, structurally and melodically, from Kachina Society Songs. In discussing the differences in Kachina Society and Medicine Society Songs with Zunis, one finds that the overall structure of Medicine Society Songs is: AB AB AB AB A or else AB AB AB AB AB AB A, in which [A] is called the kwayinanne or "coming out" section and [B], the silnanne or "talking about" section. When a Medicine Society Song is borrowed for a Kachina Society production, the structure must be changed to conform to the Log Drum form: [A] becomes the [aa'J of all five Log Drum parts and [BJ becomes the [bb'] added to [aa'] in the third and fourth parts. Zunis call these hybrid 24 |
