Native American ways of (music) history

Diamond, Beverley

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“…The story is imperative in setting up an historical template of defining and essentializing the Batwa as a hunter-gatherer community and custodians of Mgahinga and Bwindi forests, and as a way of re-imagining their history and future. The inclusion of more recent events in the narrative, such as eviction from their ancestral forestland since 1991 is an example how the space of tourism becomes one in which the Batwa re-imagine and “recreate the narratives of their past while also revealing negotiations of power” (Diamond, 2014, p. 174). This process “might bring warmth and meaning to those who live in the present or enable individuals to feel part of a larger pattern, a lineage perhaps, a network or circle, an added layer” (Diamond, 2014, p. 174).…”

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“…The inclusion of more recent events in the narrative, such as eviction from their ancestral forestland since 1991 is an example how the space of tourism becomes one in which the Batwa re-imagine and “recreate the narratives of their past while also revealing negotiations of power” (Diamond, 2014, p. 174). This process “might bring warmth and meaning to those who live in the present or enable individuals to feel part of a larger pattern, a lineage perhaps, a network or circle, an added layer” (Diamond, 2014, p. 174). The Batwa interpretation of the creation story also demonstrates that the hegemony of stereotypes “lies not in the symbols themselves, but in the epistemological power [often] exercised by dominant groups to control the meaning of these symbols” (Furniss, 1999, p. 34).…”

Section: The Batwa Creation Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Batwa Trail: developing agency and cultural self-determination in Uganda through Indigenous tourism and cultural performance

Kagumba

2021

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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This article examines how Batwa—the Indigenous peoples of Southwestern Uganda—negotiate agency and cultural self-determination through touristic cultural performances held during the Batwa Trail, an Indigenous tourist attraction in Mgahinga Forest, Southwestern Uganda. I take a theoretical model that approaches Indigenous tourism and touristic cultural performances as a site of social interaction where identity and representation are negotiated. The touristic performances are crucial in articulating Batwa performance culture and as a forum where counter-narratives against the stereotypes and marginalities associated with Batwa culture are constructed. I argue that touristic performances are a strategic form of experiential and embodied practice through which Batwa identity is negotiated and expressed.

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Section: The Batwa Creation Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Batwa Trail: developing agency and cultural self-determination in Uganda through Indigenous tourism and cultural performance

Kagumba

2021

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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On theory, citational practices and personal accountability in the study of music and affect

Gill

2020

Culture, Theory and Critique

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Sound Relations

Perea¹

2021

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Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to amplify the broader significance of sound as integral to Indigenous self-determination and resurgence movements. The book offers relational and radical ways of listening to a vast archive of Inuit presence across a range of genres—from hip hop to Christian hymnody and drumsongs to funk and R&B—to register how a density (not difference) of Indigenous ways of musicking invites readers to listen more critically to and for intersections of music, Indigeneity, and colonialism in the Americas. The research aims to dismantle stereotypical understandings of “Eskimos,” “Indians,” and “Natives” by considering how Indigenous-led and Indigeneity-centered analyses of Native musicking can reframe larger debates of race, Indigeneity, power, and representation in twenty-first-century American music historiography. Instead of proposing singular truths or facts, this book asks readers to consider the existence of multiple simultaneous truths, a density of truths, all of which are culturally constructed, performed, and in some cases politicized and policed. A sound relations approach advances a more Indigenized sound studies and a more sounded Indigenous studies that works to move beyond colonial questions of containment—“who counts as Native” and “who decides”—and colonial questions of measurement—“what exactly is ‘Native’ about Native music”—and toward an aesthetics of self-determination and resurgent world-making.

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Native American ways of (music) history

Cited by 23 publications

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The Batwa Trail: developing agency and cultural self-determination in Uganda through Indigenous tourism and cultural performance

The Batwa Trail: developing agency and cultural self-determination in Uganda through Indigenous tourism and cultural performance

On theory, citational practices and personal accountability in the study of music and affect

Sound Relations

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