Scales Recording Culture

Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9572-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten

Reihe: Refiguring American Music

Drawing on his ethnographic research at powwow grounds and in recording studios, Christopher A. Scales examines the ways that powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the unique aesthetic principles of recorded powwow music, and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scales, Christopher A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. Northern Plains Powwow Culture

1. Powwow Practices: Competition and the Discourse of Tradition 27

2. Powwow Songs: Aesthetics and Performance Practice 63

3. Drum Groups and Singers 112

Part II. The Mediation of Powwows

4. The Powwow Recording Industry in Western Canada: Race, Culture, and Commerce 143

5. Powwow Music in the Studio: Mediation and Musical Fields 187

6. Producing Powwow Music: The Aesthetics of Liveness 212

7. Powwows "Live" and "Mediated" 241

Coda. Recording Culture in the Twenty-First Century 268

Appendix: Notes on the CD Tracks 282

Notes 289

References 311

Index 323

A photo gallery appears after page 140.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher A. Scales is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Michigan State University.