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Sound Relations

By Perea, Jessica Bissett

Sound Relations

By Perea, Jessica Bissett

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Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit performances across a range of genres--from hip hop to Christian hymnody andtraditional drumsongs to funk and R&B --author Jessica Bissett Perea registers how a density (not difference) of Indigenous ways of musicking from a vast archive of presence sounds out entanglements between structures of Indigeneity and colonialism. This work dismantles stereotypical understandingsof Eskimos, Indians, and Natives by addressing the following questions: What exactly is Native about Native music? What does it mean to sound (or not sound) Native? Who decides? And how can in-depth analyses of Native music that center Indigeneity reframe larger debates of race, power, andrepresentation in twenty-first century American music historiography? Instead of proposing singular truths or facts, this book invites readers to consider the existence of multiple simultaneous truths, a density of truths, all of which are culturally constructed, performed, and in some casespoliticized and policed. Native ways of doing music history engage processes of sound worlding that envision otherwise, beyond nation-state notions of containment and glorifications of Alaska as solely an extraction site for U.S. settler capitalism, and instead amplifies possibilities for more justand equitable futures.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
334
Release Date:
2021-10-26
Publication Date:
2021-11-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190869143
ISBN13:
9780190869144
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
509 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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