Music and modernity among first peoples of North America

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"Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow, and television soundtracks of Native Classical and experimental music. Working from the shared premise that multiple modernities exist for Indige...

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Ethnomusicology North America

Indigenous peoples North America Music History and criticism

Indigenous peoples North America Social life and customs

Music North America History and criticism

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

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Music/culture

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ISBN:

9780819578631
9780819578624
0819578630
0819578622

Description:

xviii, 330 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Prologue. Pagmapak : in modern times / Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk
Music, modernity, and indigeneity : introductory notes / Victoria Lindsay Levine
The oldest songs they remember : Frances Densmore, Mountain Chief, and ethnomusicology's ideologies of modernity / David W. Samuels
Reclaiming indigeneity : music in Mi'kmaw funeral practices / Gordon E. Smith
Indigenous activism and women's voices in Canada : the music of Asani / Anna Hoefnagels
Hip-hop is resistance : indigeneity on the U.S.-Mexico border / Christina Leza
Singing and dancing idle no more : round dances as indigenous activism / Elyse Carter Vosen
Get tribal : cosmopolitan worlds and indigenous consciousness in hip-hop / T. Christopher Aplin
Native "noise" and the politics of powwow musicking in a university soundscape / John-Carlos Perea
Powwow and indigenous modernities : traditional music, public education, and child welfare / Byron Dueck
Inuit sound worlding and audioreelism in flying wild Alaska / Jessica Bissett Perea
Native classical music : Non:wa (now) / Dawn Avery
Speaking to water, singing to stone : Peter Morin, Rebecca Belmore, and the ontologies of indigenous modernity / Dylan Robinson
Purposefully reflecting on tradition and modernity / Beverley Diamond
Pu' itaaqatsit aw tuuqayta (listening to our modern lives) / Trevor Reed

LCCN:

2018046946

Control Number:

3266005

Other Authors:

Levine, Victoria Lindsay, 1954- editor
Robinson, Dylan, editor

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