title: Chris Aplin
aliases: []
tags: [person, participant]
role: public
affiliation: "University of Oklahoma Center for Applied Social Research"
position: "Affiliated Scholar"
socials:
    Email: "mailto:tchrisa@hotmail.com"
    LinkedIn: "www.linkedin.com/in/t-christopher-aplin-9981943a9"

Chris Aplin

Affiliated Scholar · University of Oklahoma Center for Applied Social Research

Chris Aplin is an ethnomusicologist and independent scholar, affiliated with the University of Oklahoma's Center for Applied Social Research, who has worked with the Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache community for about two decades. His work documents Native American music, language, and history in historical sound recordings, including a book project on the music of the Apache prisoners of war taken with Geronimo in 1886, and he received a GRAMMY Museum grant to digitize American Indian Soundchiefs recordings.