Hungry Listening

Hungry Listening PDF Author: Dylan Robinson
Publisher: Indigenous Americas
ISBN: 9781517907693
Category : Appropriation (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"This highly theoretical work of ethnomusicology is a reclamation of Indigenous ceremonial and artistic practice arguing that the inclusion and appropriation of Indigenous performers in classical music traditions only enriches the settler nation-state. Robinson gives shape to Western musical and aesthetic practices as well as to Indigenous listening practices in order to eschew traditional (Western) forms of musical analysis. Instead, the work argues that new modes of listening and studying reception, emerging out of critical Indigenous studies, are essential to understanding Indigenous musical expression in ways that do not reify the power of the settler state"--