...Susan Rasmussen This essay examines the origins and directions of ichumar (also called tichumaren in some regions), a genre of guitar music popular among young Tuaregs in Mali and Niger. Initially composed and performed by Tuareg nationalist/separatist rebels, it is now composed and performed...

... into the schoolhouse with a small organ called a melodeon. The Senecas enjoyed the music it made, but the missionaries knew that if they spoke “one word about the ‘Jesus Way’” they would be “obliged to leave at once,” so they sang the “good tidings” to the assembled Senecas instead. The following week, however...

...Grant Arndt Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains . By Scales Christopher A. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xi + 368 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index, CD . $24.95 paper...

... diverse peoples” (59). 10.1215/00141801-2007-076 Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism. By Michael Largey. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 283 pp., illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00 paper.) Joshua H. Nadel, North Carolina Central...

...John Troutman To Win the Indian Heart: Music at Chemawa Indian School . By Parkhurst Melissa D. . ( Corvallis : Oregon State University Press , 2014 . 236 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index . $22.95 paper.) Copyright 2016 by American...

... University Press . Wong Deborah 2004 Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music . New York : Routledge . Although Bigenho writes in a reflexive voice that considers her own position as a North American violinist and anthropologist in relation to the Japanese and Bolivian perspectives...

...Chris Greencorn [email protected] Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840. By Daniel Robert Laxer . ( Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2022 . 320 pp., 13 photos, 3 maps, 7 tables. $34.95...

...Patrick Burke Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music . By Troutman John W. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 392 pp., color plates, halftones, notes, bibliography, index . $35.00 cloth.) Copyright 2017 by American...

..., landscapes, historiographies, monuments, and music. In a political climate defined by ethnoracial and political tensions, colonial elites saw in the rebellion the republican ideology and racial violence of the Haitian Revolution. Fearing the persistence of social divisions and political resentment...

... Dylan Robinson’s Hungry Listening is a treatise on how to approach, engage with, and listen to/with Indigenous ways of knowing. One major premise is simple: musical undertakings that involve Indigenous musics and/or musicians have reified and continue to reify colonizing power structures. Nevertheless...

.... The book includes a lengthy discussion of music to show how Nahuas, who had their own musical traditions, embraced European musical styles and instruments. The Spanish loan word, trompeta , for example, entered Nahuatl as early as 1551, demonstrating that no comparable instrument existed in native society...

... (Massimi 2001 : 625–26). 30 In the Andes and other colonial contexts, Jesuits strove to integrate Indigenous cultures to European ones. They understood the power of music, singing, canticles, sermons, and catechetic public performances to stir sentiments and enhanced psychological states. Jesuits thus...

... Rath’s chapter, ‘‘Drums and Power: Ways of Creolizing Music in Coastal South Carolina and Georgia, 1730–90 The title of this chapter does not do it justice. It opens with a long, impressive discussion of the basic issues involved in interpreting creolization. Its first seven pages discuss the evo...

... Nahuatl to their sixteenth-­century protégés in Guatemala, as is evident in the musical works of Tomás Pascual, a Maya choirmaster from San Juan Ixcoy, Huehuetenango. Pascual’s polyphonic compositions—some of the earliest surviving from colonial Latin America and more important still...

... well drenched” (201). On another occasion, the missionaries lured a large number of Senecas into the schoolhouse with a small organ called a melodeon. The Senecas enjoyed the music it made, but the missionaries knew that if they spoke “one word about the ‘Jesus Way’” they would be “obliged...

... well drenched” (201). On another occasion, the missionaries lured a large number of Senecas into the schoolhouse with a small organ called a melodeon. The Senecas enjoyed the music it made, but the missionaries knew that if they spoke “one word about the ‘Jesus Way’” they would be “obliged...

... well drenched” (201). On another occasion, the missionaries lured a large number of Senecas into the schoolhouse with a small organ called a melodeon. The Senecas enjoyed the music it made, but the missionaries knew that if they spoke “one word about the ‘Jesus Way’” they would be “obliged...

... into the schoolhouse with a small organ called a melodeon. The Senecas enjoyed the music it made, but the missionaries knew that if they spoke “one word about the ‘Jesus Way’” they would be “obliged to leave at once,” so they sang the “good tidings” to the assembled Senecas instead. The following week, however...

... well drenched” (201). On another occasion, the missionaries lured a large number of Senecas into the schoolhouse with a small organ called a melodeon. The Senecas enjoyed the music it made, but the missionaries knew that if they spoke “one word about the ‘Jesus Way’” they would be “obliged...

... well drenched” (201). On another occasion, the missionaries lured a large number of Senecas into the schoolhouse with a small organ called a melodeon. The Senecas enjoyed the music it made, but the missionaries knew that if they spoke “one word about the ‘Jesus Way’” they would be “obliged...