Music and modernity among first peoples of North America
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Music and modernity among first peoples of North America
（Music culture）
Wesleyan University Press, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Prologue. Pagmapak : in modern times / Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk
- 1. Music, modernity, and indigeneity : introductory notes / Victoria Lindsay Levine
- 2. The oldest songs they remember : Frances Densmore, Mountain Chief, and ethnomusicology's ideologies of modernity / David W. Samuels
- 3. Reclaiming indigeneity : music in Mi'kmaw funeral practices / Gordon E. Smith
- 4. Indigenous activism and women's voices in Canada : the music of Asani / Anna Hoefnagels
- 5. Hip-hop is resistance : indigeneity on the U.S.-Mexico border / Christina Leza
- 6. Singing and dancing idle no more : round dances as indigenous activism / Elyse Carter Vosen
- 7. Get tribal : cosmopolitan worlds and indigenous consciousness in hip-hop / T. Christopher Aplin
- 8. Native "noise" and the politics of powwow musicking in a university soundscape / John-Carlos Perea
- 9. Powwow and indigenous modernities : traditional music, public education, and child welfare / Byron Dueck
- 10. Inuit sound worlding and audioreelism in flying wild Alaska / Jessica Bissett Perea
- 11. Native classical music : Non:wa (now) / Dawn Ierihó:Kwats Avery
- 12. Speaking to water, singing to stone : Peter Morin, Rebecca Belmore, and the ontologies of indigenous modernity / Dylan Robinson
- 13. Purposefully reflecting on tradition and modernity / Beverley Diamond
- 14. Pu' itaaqatsit aw tuuqayta (listening to our modern lives) / Trevor Reed
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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 Indigenous peoples, the authors seek to understand contemporary musical expression from Native perspectives and to decolonize the study of Native American/First Nations music. The essays coalesce around four main themes: innovative technology, identity formation and self-representation, political activism, and translocal musical exchange. Closely related topics include cosmopolitanism, hybridity, alliance studies, code-switching, and ontologies of sound. Featuring the work of both established and emerging scholars, the collection demonstrates the centrality of music in communicating the complex, diverse lived experience of Indigenous North Americans in the twenty-first century and brings ethnomusicology into dialogue with critical Indigenous studies.
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