Faculty
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Supervisor Name
Dr. Matt Stahl
Keywords
Indigenous studies, Native American, music, Indigenous Modernity, Contemporary Music, Womens studies, cultural studies
Description
This article examines the relationship between tradition and modern elements of Indigenous music through a cyclical perspective, and challenges colonial concepts of Indigenous modernity. Indigenous culture is often portrayed in mainstream culture as a relic of the past, which renders it incompatible with modernity. With a special focus on Indigenous female artists’ perspectives, I examine the ways in which women placed in this unique intersection challenge the binaries of past/present and tradition/modern.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Dr. Matt Stahl, Dr. Norma Coates, the Western USRI Program, and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies for their support.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Document Type
Paper
Non:wa Research Poster
Included in
Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Indigenous Studies Commons, Native American Studies Commons
Non:wa: Navigating Indigenous Modernity Through Female Artists' Perspectives
This article examines the relationship between tradition and modern elements of Indigenous music through a cyclical perspective, and challenges colonial concepts of Indigenous modernity. Indigenous culture is often portrayed in mainstream culture as a relic of the past, which renders it incompatible with modernity. With a special focus on Indigenous female artists’ perspectives, I examine the ways in which women placed in this unique intersection challenge the binaries of past/present and tradition/modern.