{"product_id":"recording-culture-9780822353232","title":"Recording Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on his ethnographic research at powwow grounds and in recording studios, Christopher A. Scales examines the ways that powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the unique aesthetic principles of recorded powwow music, and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRecording Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptional contribution to knowledge about contemporary Native American cultural initiatives. Within studies of powwow music, it is unique in its focus on aspects of CD production and issues related to the commodification of Native culture. It also provides original insights into matters such as the subtleties of drum beats, the evolving distinctions between song forms, and the criteria for judging powwow music. Christopher A. Scales's experience as a producer, as well as an ethnomusicologist, is particularly significant, since the material that he analyzes is not easily accessible outside the recording studio.\"—\u003cb\u003eBeverley Diamond\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eNative American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fascinating study, at once deeply historical and thoroughly contemporary. Through his detailed exploration of the shifting ethics and aesthetics of powwow performance, Christopher A. Scales insightfully shows us how the powwow has always been a contemporary practice of identity negotiation.\"—\u003cb\u003eDavid W. Samuels\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePutting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“While the book makes a clear contribution to the interdisciplinary field of indigenous studies, the work will also be of interest to scholars in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and the author’s field of ethnomusicology. With this new title, Duke University Press continues its work of publishing important scholarship in Native American and indigenous studies that advances the field while consciously reaching beyond it to make accessible contributions of interest to scholars working outside its boundaries.” -- Jason Baird Jackson * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“This is an important, far-ranging discussion that deepens our understanding of powwow music in new and important ways.” -- Clide Ellis * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRecording Culture\u003c\/i\u003e will serve as an excellent resource for anyone who has never been to a powwow or who knows little about powwow dancing or music.” -- Nicky Belle * ARSC Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“An ambitious book on an important and all- too- oft en underrepresented topic pertaining to the musicking of American Indians: the struggle over the control of representation via mechanically reproducible recordings.” -- John Cline * American Indian Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“…A study that is both descriptive and theoretically sophisticated… Scales pulls off a remarkable study, one that every student of indigenous song traditions should read.” -- Luke Eric Lassiter * Great Plains Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"This engaging book will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, non-specialists interested in powwow music and contemporary indigenous culture, and scholars in Native American and indigenous studies.\" -- Kristina Jacobsen-Bia * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“The book certainly has more interdisciplinary reach than is overtly written into it; those who work in performance studies and media studies will find much of interest, especially around issues related to the live and recorded production of music. \u003ci\u003eRecording Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome and significant contribution both to the study of Native and powwow music and performance, and to studies of the relationship between live and recorded musical expression.” -- Thomas G. Porcello * Ethnomusicology Forum *\u003cbr\u003e“Christopher A. Scales’s \u003ci\u003eRecording Culture \u003c\/i\u003eis a groundbreaking book that seamlessly combines two research areas that have rarely been examined together and that few scholars have the capacity to write on: Aboriginal powwow music and the recording industry.” -- Susan M. Taffe Reed * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRecording Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and its accompanying CD are incomparable educational resources for the classroom.... Firmly grounded in ethnomusicological and community-based tradition, it is a flavorful description of the most widespread, colorful, living-breathing musical form known to indigenous peoples across Turtle Island.\" -- T. Christopher Aplin * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRecording Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is conceptually sophisticated in approach and ethnographically detailed in its content.... \u003ci\u003eRecording Culture \u003c\/i\u003e[is] a pivotal addition to the literature on the powwow, the most widespread and dynamic vehicle of indigenous expressive culture in native North America.\" -- Grant Arndt * Ethnohistory *\u003cbr\u003e\"All in all, this is a richly informative book, and one that lays the groundwork for what will hopefully be more studies documenting a particularly turbulent time in the music industry and the Native response of embracing technology and innovation.\" -- Tara Browner * Ethnomusicology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Northern Plains Powwow Culture \u003cbr\u003e 1. Powwow Practices: Competition and the Discourse of Tradition 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Powwow Songs: Aesthetics and Performance Practice 63\u003cbr\u003e 3. Drum Groups and Singers 112\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Mediation of Powwows \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Powwow Recording Industry in Western Canada: Race, Culture, and Commerce 143\u003cbr\u003e 5. Powwow Music in the Studio: Mediation and Musical Fields 187\u003cbr\u003e 6. Producing Powwow Music: The Aesthetics of Liveness 212\u003cbr\u003e 7. Powwows \"Live\" and \"Mediated\" 241\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Recording Culture in the Twenty-First Century 268\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Notes on the CD Tracks 282\u003cbr\u003e Notes 289\u003cbr\u003e References 311\u003cbr\u003e Index 323\u003cbr\u003e A photo gallery appears after page 140.","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456016089431,"sku":"9780822353232","price":1157.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353232.jpg?v=1755033456","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/recording-culture-9780822353232","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}