Recording Culture : Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains /

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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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scales, Christopher A. (Christopher Alton), 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sound recording industry.
Powwows.
Music and technology.
Indians of North America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Folk & Traditional.
MUSIC > Ethnic.
Musique et technologie.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord > Musique.
Sound recording industry > Canada.
Sound recording industry > United States.
Indians of North America > Music.
United States.
Canada.
Music.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Northern Plains Powwow Culture
  • Powwow Practices: Competition and the Discourse of Tradition
  • Powwow Songs: Aesthetics and Performance Practice
  • Drum Groups and Singers
  • Part II: The Mediation of Powwows
  • The Powwow Recording Industry in Western Canada: Race, Culture, and Commerce
  • Powwow Music in the Studio: Mediation and Musical Fields
  • Producing Powwow Music: The Aesthetics of Liveness
  • Powwows "Live" and "Mediated"
  • Coda: Recording Culture in the Twenty-First Century.

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