Description
Revisioning Indigenous musicology
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.
Author: Victoria Lindsay Levine, Dylan Robinson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 02/08/2019
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780819578631
ISBN10: 0819578630
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Ethnomusicology
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
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.
Author: Victoria Lindsay Levine, Dylan Robinson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 02/08/2019
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780819578631
ISBN10: 0819578630
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Ethnomusicology
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
About the Author
VICTORIA LINDSAY LEVINE is professor of music at Colorado College and is the author of Writing American Indian Music, coauthor of Choctaw Music and Dance, and co-editor of This Thing Called Music. DYLAN ROBINSON (Stó lō) is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen's University and is the co-editor of Opera Indigene and Arts of Engagement.