Gerald Hausman
The Turquoise Horse
Audio CD
(Speaking Volumes Oct. 1, 2010)
These stories were selected by Gerald Hausman over a thirty-year stretch of listening and telling Navajo folktales around the country. Some of these were first aired on Navajo radio station KTNN and received tribal approval in 1988. Gerald's published in-print version of the turquoise horse legend has reached more than a half-million readers and listeners as part of The Junior Great Books Foundation program for learning. All of the stories contained here are little flashes of insight into the human mind as well as native thinking. The sound effects are by jazz musician Ray Griffin who also collected the ambient sounds that enhance the music and lend a naturalistic flavor to the storytelling. Here collected, the stories, poems, chants and prayers that Gerald Hausman learned from his American Indian friends during the 1960s and through the 1990s when he completed his translations of these great creation tales, equal in power to the stories in Genesis. The musical compositions by Ray Griffin, a veteran of the Santa Fe scene, are unique in that they merge sound effects, bird songs, spadefoot toads, and noises of the desert at night while Gerald Hausman is telling stories. The result is a Navajo night, full of healing and happiness, and mystery.
- ISBN
- 1935138421 / 9781935138426
- Weight
- 1.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 5.3 in.
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