Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame
“Ch. 9—Marvin Rainwater and the Pale Faced Indian: How Cover Songs Appropriated a Story of Cultural Appropriation” - Written by Christina Giacona
Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people’s entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of “Indigenous” and “celebrity” and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture’s impact on Indigenous people.
For more about the book: https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/indigenous-celebrity
Table of Contents: https://uofmpress.ca/books/extras/indigenous-celebrity-table-of-contents
The Indigenous Music of Turtle Island: Native American Music in North America
Turtle Island explores the Indigenous music of North America and how it relates to teaching, community, and preservation.
Chapter 1 What Is Native American Music?
Chapter 2 Teaching through Performative Tradition: Origin Stories and Storytelling Experienced through Narrative, Dance, and Song
Chapter 3 Community Gatherings, Friendship, Competition, and Games
Chapter 4 The Intertribal Powwow
Chapter 5 Native American Flute
Chapter 6 Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music
A Tribe Called Red Remixes Sonic Stereotypes
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) genres such as house, dubstep, and trap base expectations for specific musical events on codified hypermetrical song structures. This is also true in Powwow music, which follows a standardized song structure. In both genres, the consistent use of standardized song structure allows dancers to prepare their movements. Powwows have continually been a place for Native Americans to meet, reunite, dance, make music, and come together. Wanting to create a similar experience in Ottawa Canada, A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) has sought to create such a place for urban Aboriginals. By sampling Native American dance music into songs that follow the hypermetrical structures of traditional EDM genres, ATCR has created a new genre of electronic dance music called Electric Powwow.
Through my ethnographic research in Powwow and Electric Powwow performances, I have identified how ATCR's Electric Powwow music uses the hypermetrical structures of EDM to translate samples from traditional Powwow performances into a westernized musical language. This process reveals to the westernized, urban listener that "traditional" Native American music is still relevant, active, and part of a contemporary community of artists, musicians, and dancers. In this paper, I will investigate how ATCR has remixed Powwow samples in the structure of EDM to create a new genre that celebrates tradition while speaking to a modern and urban audience
https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/02/13/a-tribe-called-red-remixes-sonic-stereotypes/
Intercultural Mediation and the Rediscovered Compositions of Cherokee Composer Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
The Dale Society Fellowship, supported by the Association of Western History Collections Endowment, supports graduate students in other OU graduate programs outside of the Department of History. Christina Giacona, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, discusses her project “Intercultural Mediation and the Rediscovered Compositions of Cherokee Composer Jack Frederick Kilpatrick.”