Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several musical styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene that has emerged in the western Canadian province of Manitoba. Focusing on fiddling, country music, and Christian hymnody, as well as step dancing and the pow-wow, author Byron Dueck advances a groundbreaking new performative theory of music culture that acknowledges tradition without losing sight of the dynamic negotiations that bring it into being. This unique work will appeal to students and scholars of popular music, musicology, music theory, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.