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Informationen zum Autor Christopher A. Scales is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Michigan State University. Klappentext Drawing on his ethnographic research at powwow grounds and in recording studios, Christopher A. Scales examines the ways that powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the unique aesthetic principles of recorded powwow music, and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios. Zusammenfassung Drawing on his ethnographic research at powwow grounds and in recording studios! Christopher A. Scales examines the ways that powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries! the unique aesthetic principles of recorded powwow music! and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Northern Plains Powwow Culture 1. Powwow Practices: Competition and the Discourse of Tradition 27 2. Powwow Songs: Aesthetics and Performance Practice 63 3. Drum Groups and Singers 112 Part II. The Mediation of Powwows 4. The Powwow Recording Industry in Western Canada: Race, Culture, and Commerce 143 5. Powwow Music in the Studio: Mediation and Musical Fields 187 6. Producing Powwow Music: The Aesthetics of Liveness 212 7. Powwows "Live" and "Mediated" 241 Coda. Recording Culture in the Twenty-First Century 268 Appendix: Notes on the CD Tracks 282 Notes 289 References 311 Index 323 A photo gallery appears after page 140.
