Why Do the Innu Sing Popular Music? Reflections on Cultural Assertion and Identity Movements in Music

Audet, Véronique

doi:10.1515/9780773587120-023

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Native American ways of (music) history

Diamond¹

2013

The Cambridge History of World Music

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Native American ways of (music) history

Diamond¹

2013

The Cambridge History of World Music

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Songs to Revitalise Community Solidarity among the Indigenous Mah Meri of Malaysia

CHAN

2023

yearb. tradit. music

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Mah Meri musicians in Malaysia are calling for a revitalisation of community solidarity by adding fragments of new song text to their traditional songs. Intrinsic to the new song texts are narratives of working together, sharing and unity in the community. Through a reexamination of my personal interviews and fieldnotes with these musicians over the past two decades, I posit that their new song texts address social issues that emerged as the village adopted values of modernisation introduced by policies to integrate these people into mainstream society. Rather than outwardly protesting these policies, I argue that Mah Meri musicians challenge top-down hegemonies through a subtle approach of metaphor, rhetoric, and sympathetic appeal in their songs. They direct their efforts inward to their community to rejuvenate and sustain their indigenous values of egalitarianism.

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Tales of river and ice: Indigenous art and water justice in the Arctic and the Amazon

Sohns,

Noseworthy,

Hickey

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Indigenous water knowledge recognizes water as living, and that the relationship between people and water is one of reciprocity. Yet, Indigenous Peoples continue to struggle for water justice due to centuries long and ongoing colonial legacies that have intergenerational effects on self-determination, culture, and wellbeing. Using a narrative review, this paper explores how published research has used art and arts-based approaches to explore dimensions of water injustice, wellbeing and mental health with Indigenous communities living in the Arctic and Amazon regions. Within the three central themes of the review (wellbeing, water justice, and arts-based research approaches), the most discussed emergent themes were: relationship to place, kinship, the lived experience of water, ongoing changes to water, and storytelling and art as instruments of resistance and to make visible what is not visible. The paper discusses those themes from the literature, and possible areas of future research. The findings underscore the importance of including diverse voices, worldviews and knowledges in water governance, and the potential for arts-based approaches to facilitate intercultural and intergenerational efforts to address water injustice and advance Indigenous Peoples’ rights to self-determination .

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Why Do the Innu Sing Popular Music? Reflections on Cultural Assertion and Identity Movements in Music

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Native American ways of (music) history

Native American ways of (music) history

Songs to Revitalise Community Solidarity among the Indigenous Mah Meri of Malaysia

Tales of river and ice: Indigenous art and water justice in the Arctic and the Amazon

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