{"id":173,"date":"2011-05-04T13:41:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normanstanfield\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T23:27:02","slug":"canadas-first-nations-music-and-dance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normanstanfield\/future-courses\/canadas-first-nations-music-and-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s First Nations Music and Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, Mowachaht elders were determined not to be wiped out and set a course for cultural revival, a first step that began simply – with singing, dancing and learning old songs.<\/em>\u00a0 Fiona Hughes, The Vancouver Courier, January 25, 1995<\/em><\/p>\n

The visual arts of Canada\u2019s First Nations have been subject to detail attention and deep admiration, but very little attention has been given to their music and dance. This course sets out to remedy this over-sight. First Nations traditional music does not have the same kind of direct appeal that the visual arts enjoy, but their compositional structures and performance practices are no less intriguing. In keeping with Edward Hall\u2019s definition of High Culture, their roles are not disembodied aesthetic pleasures but rather, reflections and windows into some important truths. The program will begin with a careful examination of traditional music and dance, focusing eventually on the Kwakwaka\u2019wakw traditions, Intertribal Pow Wow and Bone Game (slahal) gatherings, before the lectures move into contemporary Canadian aboriginal music as exemplified by Rez Rap and the Aboriginal Music Awards. The entire lecture series will be governed by the theories that have emerged from the study of Indigenous Decolonisation. At each step, the class will be made aware of role of First Nation elders in the pursuit of this knowledge. Although the lectures will mainly be concerned with providing knowledge to non First Nations people, the class can\u2019t help but be enriched by the attendance of any First Nations students who may wish to learn new points of view and experience the reception given to their art. They are welcome to comment at any point in the lecture series.<\/p>\n

Textbook<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Zimmerman, Larry J. Native North America<\/em> (2003)<\/p>\n

Lecture Schedule and Readings<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Week 1 Theory and Practice of Indigenous Decolonization<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Brown, Michael (2003) Who Owns Native Culture<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Root, Deborah (1996) Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation and the Commodification of Difference<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Emberley, Julia V. (2009) Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada <\/em><\/p>\n

Week 2 Notation and music theory for First Nations music<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Levine, Victoria Lindsay, editor, (2002) Writing American Indian Music: A Musicological Odyssey<\/p>\n

Ellingson, Ter (1992)\u00a0\u201cNotation\u201d and \u201cTranscription,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0in Ethnomusicology: an Introduction<\/em>, pp. 110-164.<\/p>\n

Blum, Stephen (1992)\u00a0\u201cAnalysis of Musical Style,\u201d in Ethnomusicology: an Introduction <\/em>(1992), pp. 165-218.<\/p>\n

Wickwire, Wendy (1985)\u00a0\u201cTheories of Ethnomusicology and the North American Indian: Retrospective and Critique,\u201d in Canadian<\/em> University<\/em> Music Review<\/em>, Number 6, pp. 186-221.<\/p>\n

Week 3 Survey of North American aboriginal music and dance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Keeling, Richard (1997)\u00a0North American Indian Music: A Guide to Published Sources and Selected Recordings<\/em><\/p>\n

Levine, Victoria Lindsay, Bruno Nettl and Elaine Keillor (2005) Amerindian Music<\/em>, in Oxford Music Online (New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians – 2nd Edition)<\/p>\n

Week 4 British Columbia West Coast and Interior Nations\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wickwire, Wendy (1988) \u00a0\u201cJames A. Teit: His Contribution to Canadian Ethnomusicology,\u201d in Canadian Journal of Native Studies<\/em>, Volume 8, Number 2 (1988), pp. 183-204.<\/p>\n

Maud, Ralph (1982) A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Muckle, Robert (1998) The First Nations of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n

Week 5<\/strong> Protocols of collecting, editing, and publishing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (1999) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Palmer, Andie Diane (2007)\u00a0\u201cApproaching a Sacred Song: Toward a Respectful Presentation of the Discourse We Study,\u201d in Studies in American Indian Literatures<\/em>, Volume 19, Number 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 52-61<\/p>\n

Guidelines for Respecting Cultural Knowledge, published by the Alaska Native Knowledge Network (ANKN).
\nhttp:\/\/www.ankn.uaf.edu\/publications\/knowledge.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 6 Kwakwaka\u2019wakw music and dance: potlatch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Masco, Joseph (1995) \u201cIt is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance\u201d: Cosmologies, Colonialism, Death, and Ritual Authority in the Kwakwaka\u2019wakw Potlatch, 1849 to 1922,\u201d in Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em>, Volume 37, Number 1 (Jan, 1995), pp. 41-75.<\/p>\n

Glass, Aaron (2004) \u201cThe Thin Edge of the Wedge: Dancing around the Potlatch Ban, 1921-1951,\u201d in Right to Dance: Dancing for Rights<\/em>, edited by Naomi Jackson.<\/strong>Week 7 Kwakwaka\u2019wakw music and dance: winter ceremonies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holm, Bill (1990)\u00a0\u201cKwakiutl: Winter Ceremonies,\u201d in Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7: Northwest Coast<\/em>, pp. 378-86<\/p>\n

Glass, Aaron (2004)\u00a0\u201cThe Intention of Tradition: Contemporary Contexts and Contests of the Hamat\u2019sa Dance,\u201d in Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions<\/em>, edited by Marie Mauze et al. pp. 279-304.<\/p>\n

Week 8 Kwakwaka\u2019wakw music: form and content<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Halpern, Ida (1989)\u00a0\u201cNative Music of the Pacific Northwest,\u201d in Musicologica Austriaca<\/em>, number 9, pp. 111-132.<\/p>\n

Kolstee, Anton (1988)\u00a0\u201cThe Historical and Musical Significance of Northwest Coast Hamaca Songs,\u201d in Canadian Journal of Native Studies<\/em>, Volume 8, Number 2 , pp. 173-182.<\/p>\n

Week 9 Intertribal Pow Wow Dance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fowler, Loretta (2005) \u201cLocal Contexts of Powwow Ritual,\u201d in Powwow<\/em>, edited by Clyde Ellis et al., pp. 68-85<\/p>\n

Valaskakis,\u00a0Gail Guthrie (2005)\u00a0\u201cBlood Borders: Being Indian and Belonging,\u201d in Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture<\/em>, pp. 211-53.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Week 10 Intertribal Pow Wow Music<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Powers, William K. (1990) War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance<\/em><\/p>\n

Deloria, Philip J. (2004) \u201cThe hills are alive\u2026with the sound of Indian,\u201d in Indians in Unexpected Places<\/em>, pp. 183-223.<\/p>\n

Browner, Tara (2002) Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow<\/em><\/p>\n

Week 11 The Bone Game (Slahal) and its Music<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stuart, Wendy Bross (1972) Gambling Music of the Coast Salish Indians.<\/em><\/p>\n

Culin, Stewart (1902-1903\/1975) Games of the North American Indians<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Raibmon, Paige (2005)\u00a0\u201cPicking, Posing, and Performing: Puget Sound Hop Fields and Income for Aboriginal Workers,\u201d and \u201cHarvest Gatherings,\u201d in Authentic Indians, <\/em>pp. 74-97<\/p>\n

Week 12 Country Music, Rez Rap, Rock and Pop<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Samuels, David (2009)\u00a0\u201cSinging Indian Country,\u201d in Music of First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America<\/em>, edited by Tara Browner, pp. 141-160.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Krims, Adam\u00a0 (2000) \u201cCree Rap,\u201d in Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity<\/em>, pp. 177-197.<\/p>\n

Week 13 First Nations music in the schools and the Tourist Industry<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buchanan, Joan and Sandra Davies (1980) \u00a0Music in Our Lives (Grade 4): The Pacific Northwest Coast Indians: Music. Instruments. Legends<\/em><\/p>\n

Smith, Melanie (2003)\u00a0\u201cIndigenous cultural tourism,\u201d in Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies<\/em>, pp. 117-32.<\/p>\n

Blundell, Valda (2002) \u201cAboriginal Cultural Tourism in Canada,\u201d in Slippery Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture<\/em>, edited by Joan Nicks and Jeanette Sloniowski, \u00a0pp. 37-60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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