Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains

Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
ISBN-10
0822353385
ISBN-13
9780822353386
Category
Music
Pages
338
Language
English
Published
2012-11-12
Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Christopher A. Scales

Description

Drawing 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.

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