{"product_id":"listening-to-the-fur-trade-9780228008590","title":"Listening to the Fur Trade","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and  very occasionally  bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eListening to the Fur Trad\u003c\/i\u003ee uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entaile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There has been much literature devoted to fur-trade canoe routes and voyageur life, but analyzing them through their soundscapes is very original. Daniel Laxer advances the intriguing idea that music and performance can be assessed as another form of exchange and thereby paints a different and more comprehensive picture of fur-trade labour and social relations. \u003ci\u003eListening to the Fur Trade \u003c\/i\u003ewill really shake up what we know about the fur trade.” George Colpitts, University of Calgary and author of \u003ci\u003eNorth America’s Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580–1850\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer's attention to the importance of music and sound as tools of diplomacy in relationship negotiations and as central to life in precolonial Canada is a rich and innovative settler approach to historical studies.” \u003cem\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400160846167,"sku":"9780228008590","price":37.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780228008590.jpg?v=1730469916","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/listening-to-the-fur-trade-9780228008590","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}