Dueck, Byron - Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries

This book 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.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: Publicity, Counterpublicity, Antipublicity
Chapter 2 Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and Metis Fiddling
Chapter 3 #1 on NCI: Country Music and the Aboriginal Public
Chapter 4 Your Own Heart Will Make its Own Music: Gospel Singing, Individuation, and the Comforting Community
Preface to Chapter 5
Chapter 5 We Don't Want to Say No to Anybody Who Wants to Sing: Gospel Music in Coffee-House Performance
Chapter 6 Antipublicity: Family Tradition and the Aboriginal Public
Chapter 7 Circulation Controversies
Conclusion
Bibliography