John Borrows
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780198297703
- eISBN:
- 9780191602948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019829770X.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
A personal account is given of the treatment of Canadian Aborigines (North American Indians) and Aboriginal land. Despite some achievements in the recognition and affirmation of Aboriginal rights, ...
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A personal account is given of the treatment of Canadian Aborigines (North American Indians) and Aboriginal land. Despite some achievements in the recognition and affirmation of Aboriginal rights, indigenous citizenship with the land is becoming increasingly tenuous. The author advocates Aboriginal control of Canadian affairs (as well as Aboriginal affairs), in the light of the increasing participation of Aboriginals at all levels in Canadian society. He does not advocate assimilation, but argues that citizenship under Aboriginal influence may generate a greater attentiveness to the land uses and cultural practices that are preferred by Aborigines.Less
A personal account is given of the treatment of Canadian Aborigines (North American Indians) and Aboriginal land. Despite some achievements in the recognition and affirmation of Aboriginal rights, indigenous citizenship with the land is becoming increasingly tenuous. The author advocates Aboriginal control of Canadian affairs (as well as Aboriginal affairs), in the light of the increasing participation of Aboriginals at all levels in Canadian society. He does not advocate assimilation, but argues that citizenship under Aboriginal influence may generate a greater attentiveness to the land uses and cultural practices that are preferred by Aborigines.
Michael V. Pisani
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108934
- eISBN:
- 9780300130737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108934.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter examines the influence of anthropological and ethnological studies on musical representation of North American Indians. It discusses efforts to dispel the noble savage idea of American ...
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This chapter examines the influence of anthropological and ethnological studies on musical representation of North American Indians. It discusses efforts to dispel the noble savage idea of American Indians and suggests that many of the attitudes formed in popular culture about Indians were created indirectly in the nineteenth century by government agencies. It highlights the influence of anthropology and popular middlebrow culture on the iconographic and indexical representation of Indian music in American culture.Less
This chapter examines the influence of anthropological and ethnological studies on musical representation of North American Indians. It discusses efforts to dispel the noble savage idea of American Indians and suggests that many of the attitudes formed in popular culture about Indians were created indirectly in the nineteenth century by government agencies. It highlights the influence of anthropology and popular middlebrow culture on the iconographic and indexical representation of Indian music in American culture.
Michael V. Pisani
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108934
- eISBN:
- 9780300130737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108934.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter examines the representation of Native American resistance in European theater and music during the period from 1710 to 1808. It explains that American subjects in ballets and operas ...
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This chapter examines the representation of Native American resistance in European theater and music during the period from 1710 to 1808. It explains that American subjects in ballets and operas during this period were based principally on Spanish and French encounters with Indians in South and Central America and the dominant themes were the ruthlessness of conquest and the heroism of the Native Americans who resisted. It also describes the specific depictions of North American Indians in eighteenth-century British music.Less
This chapter examines the representation of Native American resistance in European theater and music during the period from 1710 to 1808. It explains that American subjects in ballets and operas during this period were based principally on Spanish and French encounters with Indians in South and Central America and the dominant themes were the ruthlessness of conquest and the heroism of the Native Americans who resisted. It also describes the specific depictions of North American Indians in eighteenth-century British music.
Michael V. Pisani
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108934
- eISBN:
- 9780300130737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108934.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the musical representation of Native America. This volume examines the music to evoke North and South American Indians and ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the musical representation of Native America. This volume examines the music to evoke North and South American Indians and American national identity. It also investigates the pale-faced imitations of Native American music and ritual as rendered in the royal courts, the opera house, the theater, the salon, and the exhibition hall. This volume also traces the musical roots of America's Indian.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the musical representation of Native America. This volume examines the music to evoke North and South American Indians and American national identity. It also investigates the pale-faced imitations of Native American music and ritual as rendered in the royal courts, the opera house, the theater, the salon, and the exhibition hall. This volume also traces the musical roots of America's Indian.
Ter Ellingson
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222687
- eISBN:
- 9780520925922
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222687.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter looks at the more complex and interesting task of exploring the works of writers who have been perceived as advocates of positive interpretations of “savage” life, with emphasis on ...
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This chapter looks at the more complex and interesting task of exploring the works of writers who have been perceived as advocates of positive interpretations of “savage” life, with emphasis on writers on the North American Indian, who continues to represent the paradigm case of the “savage,” moving into the eighteenth century and the period known as the Enlightenment. Among the eighteenth-century writers on the American Indians, those who have attracted the most attention are Lahontan and Lafitau, the latter of whom is perhaps almost stereotypically an Enlightenment scholar in the Foucauldian sense of his tendency toward the “mathesis.” Lahontan, by contrast, continues and expands on the skeptical and critical tendencies that we see so strikingly present in Lescarbot.Less
This chapter looks at the more complex and interesting task of exploring the works of writers who have been perceived as advocates of positive interpretations of “savage” life, with emphasis on writers on the North American Indian, who continues to represent the paradigm case of the “savage,” moving into the eighteenth century and the period known as the Enlightenment. Among the eighteenth-century writers on the American Indians, those who have attracted the most attention are Lahontan and Lafitau, the latter of whom is perhaps almost stereotypically an Enlightenment scholar in the Foucauldian sense of his tendency toward the “mathesis.” Lahontan, by contrast, continues and expands on the skeptical and critical tendencies that we see so strikingly present in Lescarbot.
John T. Juricek
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034683
- eISBN:
- 9780813038582
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034683.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This detailed account of interactions between the English and the Creek Indians in colonial Georgia, from the founding until 1763, describes how colonists and the Creeks negotiated with each other, ...
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This detailed account of interactions between the English and the Creek Indians in colonial Georgia, from the founding until 1763, describes how colonists and the Creeks negotiated with each other, especially over land issues. The research reveals the clashes between the groups, their efforts to manipulate one another, and how they reached a series of unstable compromises. European and North American Indian nations had different understandings of “national” territory. In Georgia, this led to a bitter conflict that lasted more than a decade and threatened to destroy the colony. Unlike previous accounts of James Oglethorpe's diplomacy, the book reveals how his serious blunders led directly to colonial Georgia's greatest crisis. In the end, an ingenious and complicated compromise arranged by Governor Henry Ellis resolved the situation, mainly in favor of the English. By focusing on the land issues that structured the treaties, this book tells a cross-cultural story of deal-making and deal-breaking, both public and private.Less
This detailed account of interactions between the English and the Creek Indians in colonial Georgia, from the founding until 1763, describes how colonists and the Creeks negotiated with each other, especially over land issues. The research reveals the clashes between the groups, their efforts to manipulate one another, and how they reached a series of unstable compromises. European and North American Indian nations had different understandings of “national” territory. In Georgia, this led to a bitter conflict that lasted more than a decade and threatened to destroy the colony. Unlike previous accounts of James Oglethorpe's diplomacy, the book reveals how his serious blunders led directly to colonial Georgia's greatest crisis. In the end, an ingenious and complicated compromise arranged by Governor Henry Ellis resolved the situation, mainly in favor of the English. By focusing on the land issues that structured the treaties, this book tells a cross-cultural story of deal-making and deal-breaking, both public and private.
Michael V. Pisani
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108934
- eISBN:
- 9780300130737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108934.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the musical representation of Native America and North American Indians. It suggests that despite the stereotype depictions of ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the musical representation of Native America and North American Indians. It suggests that despite the stereotype depictions of American Indians, representation brought about a greater awareness of ancient values in human civilization which could still be part of the modern world. It also highlights the role of music in engaging the ideologies of its time in a fascinating discourse.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the musical representation of Native America and North American Indians. It suggests that despite the stereotype depictions of American Indians, representation brought about a greater awareness of ancient values in human civilization which could still be part of the modern world. It also highlights the role of music in engaging the ideologies of its time in a fascinating discourse.
Byron Dueck
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199811328
- eISBN:
- 9780199369539
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199811328.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, Performing Practice/Studies
This chapter examines how, in a variety of contemporary musical styles, aboriginal musicians from the western Canadian province of Manitoba move away from rigorously metricalised rhythmic frameworks ...
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This chapter examines how, in a variety of contemporary musical styles, aboriginal musicians from the western Canadian province of Manitoba move away from rigorously metricalised rhythmic frameworks and towards freer, more minimally metrical ones. It proposes that (variously) metricalised performances can be understood to enact subtle forms of role recruitment and hail listeners to particular kinds of rhythmic subjecthood. As it shows, not all listeners respond in the same way to these summons, and consequently rhythmic organisation is implicated in not only establishing and extending socio-musical groups, but delimiting them as well. Consequently, in the Manitoban context, variation in temporal regulation is one practice that distinguishes aboriginal and non-aboriginal publics from one another.Less
This chapter examines how, in a variety of contemporary musical styles, aboriginal musicians from the western Canadian province of Manitoba move away from rigorously metricalised rhythmic frameworks and towards freer, more minimally metrical ones. It proposes that (variously) metricalised performances can be understood to enact subtle forms of role recruitment and hail listeners to particular kinds of rhythmic subjecthood. As it shows, not all listeners respond in the same way to these summons, and consequently rhythmic organisation is implicated in not only establishing and extending socio-musical groups, but delimiting them as well. Consequently, in the Manitoban context, variation in temporal regulation is one practice that distinguishes aboriginal and non-aboriginal publics from one another.
Byron Dueck
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199747641
- eISBN:
- 9780199379859
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747641.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, History, American
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of ...
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Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. It also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. Such gatherings open up spaces for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability; they also play a role in the perpetuation of a distinctive indigenous public culture. They are in this sense interstitial sites: at once places of intimate engagement and spaces oriented to an imagined public of strangers. This volume looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords—in some cases making enthusiastic use of broadcasts and recordings, and in others insistently prioritizing social intimacy; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.Less
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. It also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. Such gatherings open up spaces for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability; they also play a role in the perpetuation of a distinctive indigenous public culture. They are in this sense interstitial sites: at once places of intimate engagement and spaces oriented to an imagined public of strangers. This volume looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords—in some cases making enthusiastic use of broadcasts and recordings, and in others insistently prioritizing social intimacy; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
