
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries
Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance
Byron Dueck(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 5. December 2013
Book
Hardback
274 pages
978-0-19-974764-1 (ISBN)
Description
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are performed, author Byron Dueck outlines a compelling theory of musical publics, examines the complex, overlapping social orientations of contemporary musicians, and shows how music and dance play a central role in a distinctive indigenous public culture.
Dueck considers a wide range of contemporary aboriginal performances and venues--urban and rural, secular and sacred, large and small. Such gatherings create opportunities for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability and for the creative extension of indigenous publicness. In examining these interstitial sites--at once places of intimate interaction and spaces oriented to imagined audiences--this volume considers how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with audiences both immediate and unknown; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
Musical Intimacies brings theories of public culture from anthropology and literary criticism into musicological and ethnomusicological discussions while introducing productive new ways of understanding North American indigenous engagement with mass mediation. It is a unique work that will appeal to students and scholars of popular music, musicology, music theory, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. It will be necessary reading for students of American ethnomusicology, First Nations and Native American studies, and Canadian music studies.
Dueck considers a wide range of contemporary aboriginal performances and venues--urban and rural, secular and sacred, large and small. Such gatherings create opportunities for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability and for the creative extension of indigenous publicness. In examining these interstitial sites--at once places of intimate interaction and spaces oriented to imagined audiences--this volume considers how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with audiences both immediate and unknown; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
Musical Intimacies brings theories of public culture from anthropology and literary criticism into musicological and ethnomusicological discussions while introducing productive new ways of understanding North American indigenous engagement with mass mediation. It is a unique work that will appeal to students and scholars of popular music, musicology, music theory, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. It will be necessary reading for students of American ethnomusicology, First Nations and Native American studies, and Canadian music studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
31 figures
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-974764-1 (9780199747641)
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Byron Dueck is a lecturer in ethnomusicology at the Open University. He received his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2005. His research interests include First Nations and Metis music and dance in North America, popular music in Cameroon, and jazz performance in the United Kingdom. His work in these diverse areas is connected by overarching interests in musical publics, performances of national multiculturalism, and the social implications of rhythm and meter.
Content
Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1 Introduction: Publicity, Counterpublicity, Antipublicity ; Chapter 2 Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and Metis Fiddling ; Chapter 3 "#1 on NCI": Country Music and the Aboriginal Public ; Chapter 4 "Your Own Heart Will Make its Own Music": Gospel Singing, Individuation, and the Comforting Community ; Preface to Chapter 5 ; Chapter 5 "We Don't Want to Say No to Anybody Who Wants to Sing": Gospel Music in Coffee-House Performance ; Chapter 6 Antipublicity: Family Tradition and the Aboriginal Public ; Chapter 7 Circulation Controversies ; Conclusion ; Bibliography