Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
- Author: Scales, Christopher A.
Book
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Contents
- 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.