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Recording culture : Powwow music and the Aboriginal recording industry on the Northern Plains / Christopher A. Scales.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scales, Christopher A. (Christopher Alton), 1966-
- Series:
- Refiguring American music.
- Refiguring American music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Music.
- Indians of North America.
- Sound recording industry--United States.
- Sound recording industry.
- Sound recording industry--Canada.
- Music and technology.
- Powwows.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Powwow practices : competition and the discourse of tradition
- Powwow songs : aesthetics and performance practice
- Drum groups and singers
- The Aboriginal 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283742429
- 128374242X
- 9780822395720
- 082239572X
- OCLC:
- 818413892
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