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Musical intimacies and indigenous imaginaries : aboriginal music and dance in public performance / Byron Dueck

Author
Dueck, Byron
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), music
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Publicity, Counterpublicity, Antipublicity -- 2.Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and Metis Fiddling -- 3."#1 on NCI": Country Music and the Aboriginal Public -- 4."Your Own Heart Will Make Its Own Music": Gospel Singing, Individuation, and the Comforting Community -- Preface to Chapter 5. Musical Materials, Performance, and Efficacy -- 5."We Don't Want to Say No to Anybody Who Wants to Sing": Gospel Music in Coffeehouse Performance -- 6.Antipublicity: Family Tradition and the Aboriginal Public -- 7.Circulation Controversies -- 8.Conclusion.
Summary
Dueck considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in Manitoba, including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. He also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. He looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
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ISBN
9780199379859 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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