Christopher A Scales

Recording Culture

Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the Aboriginal music industry and the powwow social world that supports it.

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353232
• ISBN-10: 0822353237
• Artikelnr.: 35211591

Autorenporträt

Christopher A. Scales

Inhaltsangabe

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.