Discuss Navajo hymn music

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• Navajo hymn music shows the outside influence of Christian religion and missionaries.
• This music has few of the features of traditional Navajo music.
• However, the sound of Navajo accent, along with certain melodic and rhythmic shortcuts, makes Navajo listeners feel that the music is "their own."

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