Indigenous Music Flashcards
idlenomore
social movement that originated among First Nations people in Canada
- December 2012 in response to the Canadian government’s introduction of Bill C-45, which take away environmental protections and indigenous land rights
- also to recognize the continued racism against indigenous people
Jermy Dutcher
-studied at Dalhousie University of Halifax
-song collecting especially for Indigenous music
- early recordings on Wax Cylinders
Late 1980s, early 20th century
- early anthropologists wanted to record Indigenous music on
wax because they were afraid the
cultures the music was dying from New Brunswick.
-Dutcher resists the cultural genocide
of stripping people of language music
“Mehcinut”
Francis Densmore photo with Chief Ninna Stako is the inspiration
for his album cover.
- settlers searched to “savage” the culture but dutucher said it never died.
- he sings in his language doesn’t translate as a way of resisting
colonial settlers that have taken
his language culture
Why did Jeremy Dutcher not share direct translations of his music?
Dutcher chose not to share direct translations of the songs, resisting the
colonial urge, in his words, “to penetrate, to traverse, to know, to translate, to own and exploit.
Who inspired Jeremy Dutcher’s Album Cover?
Chief Ninna-Stako
Image of Ethnographer Frances Densmore collecting songs from Blackfoot chief Ninna-Stako in 1916
-Dutcher did not like that settler’s were trying to salvage Indigenous as he believes that Indigenous culture has always been here.
