Alexa Woloshyn’s article Hearing Urban Indigeneity in Canada: Self-Determination, Community Formation, and Kinaesthetic Listening with A Tribe Called Red, describes the way that Indigenous peoples are using music to bring people together and form a community around their shared experience of listening to and dancing to music. Woloshyn speaks of the experience at Electric Pow Wow, an event held at Babylon, a club in Ottawa on the second Saturday of every month. A Tribe Called Red often performs their “powwow step” at this event, which Woloshyn describes as “a genre that blends samples of powwow drumming and singing with dubstep,” (1). Woloshyn claims that the importance of A Tribe Called Red’s music and of Electric Pow Wow comes from the fact that “the music and movement of the Electric Pow Wow dance floor allow Aboriginal youth to express pride in their culture, celebrate their contemporary urban-based identities, and reject colonial regulation of the Aboriginal body,” (2). Woloshyn also examines three songs from A Tribe Called Red’s first two albums.
Included below is the citation for this article as well as links to the three A Tribe Called Red songs analyzed in the article.
Woloshyn, Alexa. “Hearing Urban Indigeneity in Canada: Self-Determination, Community Formation, and Kinaesthetic Listening with A Tribe Called Red.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 39.3 (2015): 1-23. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Feb. 2017.