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An article from Inter, on Érudit.
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In September 2008 Canada’s most prestigious orchestra, the acclaimed Orchestre symphonique de Montreal (OSM), embarked on its first ever tour of the Canadian Arctic. Lead by internationally celebrated conductor Kent Nagano, the OSM's program featured a concert of music from the classical repertoire, including Stravinksy’s Histoire du soldat narrated in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit people, and a new work inspired by Inuit throatsinging from Canadian composer Alexina Louie. Offering viewers intimate access to Maestro Nagano, the artists, and the remote Inuit communities they visit, this stunning documentary captures an extraordinary meeting of two worlds through music.
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A pack that contains a book and a CD. The book presents an outline of Cree musical history and a contribution to ethnomusicology, social history, and Aboriginal studies. The CD contains over 80 Cree hunting songs.
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In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television. In this book, the first devoted to any Native filmmaker, Obomsawin receives her due as the central figure in the development of indigenous media in North America.
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This article presents popular Innu musical expressions as voices that serve to reaffirm Innu identity and revitalize Innu society and culture. These songs in the Innu language are inspired by various musical trends such as country, rock, folk and pop, as well as Innu, Pan-Indian, Christian and Quebecois traditions. They have been created, practiced and renewed since the second half of the twentieth century, accompanying the often radical events, movements and transformations that have marked Innu social and cultural life. Contemporary Innu youth, like their predecessors, are the primary conveyers of this expressive movement which they use to participate in the daily life of their communities, and reaffirm their identity, their experiences and their preoccupations, thus contributing to the revitalization of their world and the Innu “way of being”. We present some of the singers, groups and songs that are representative of contemporary Innu musical expression and who have had a significant impact within their society. This provides a sensitive understanding of the context, the significance and the power of these expressions.
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À travers l’expérience d’un groupe de joueurs de tambour de la communauté atikamekw de Wemotaci, cet article montre comment de jeunes autochtones négocient le changement dans un con- texte social et culturel en pleine mutation. La pratique contemporaine du tambour est révélatrice de transformations et de persistances culturelles véhiculées par la jeunesse : valorisé dans de nombreuses communautés, le tambour s’inscrit dans un processus plus large de convocation culturelle qui a pris naissance dans la communauté de Wemotaci dans les années 80. À côté de la responsabilité culturelle que cette pratique implique, les membres du groupe revendiquent aujourd’hui une responsabilité professionnelle intervenant tout autant dans leur expérience et dans leur représentation de ce que signifie être jeune et atikamekw aujourd’hui. Les dispositions musicales, les lois du marché, le respect des contrats, les négociations et les conciliations liées à la professionnalisation se positionnent donc aux côtés des savoirs locaux persistant dans le contexte contemporain.
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The problematic issue of the relations between Europeans and North American Aboriginal peoples has been widely studied during the twentieth century, but the European influence on native musical practices has not yet been explored as a general rule, nor in particular with regard to how their instruments were created and used. The voice, that manifestation of object-body-person, and its musical usage in song is without doubt the best documented musical fact in the narratives of the voyages of the civil and military officers of the New World. The historical ethnological study presented here is an initial analysis of ancient texts written between 1524 and 1800, whose purpose is to identify the changes that may have appeared in the instrumental and vocal cultures, which were closely linked to the musical art of the various Native peoples. A comparison of the collected data reveals a variety of trends in the development of native practices. In addition to these results, the work on native musical issues conducted by researchers since the end of the nineteenth century provides confirmation that in some cases acculturation and its symptoms became evident only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Résumé La problématique des relations entre les Européens et les peuples autochtones d’Amérique du Nord a fait l’objet de nombreuses études au XXe siècle, mais l’influence des Européens sur les pratiques musicales amérindiennes n’a pas encore été mesurée de façon générale ni particulièrement en ce qui a trait à la fabrication et l’usage des instruments. La voix, manifestation de l’objet-corps humain, et son utilisation musicale, le chant, constituent sans doute la portion du fait musical la mieux documentée dans les récits de voyages et la corres pondance des officiers civils et militaires du Nouveau Monde. L’étude d’ethnologie historique présentée ici jette un premier regard sur des textes anciens écrits entre 1524 et 1800, afin de cerner les changements qui ont pu apparaître au sein des cultures instrumentale et vocale, très liées dans l’art musical des différents peuples autochtones. La confrontation des données recueillies permet de dégager des tendances dans l’évolution des pratiques. À ces résultats s’ajoutent les travaux sur les questions musicales amérindiennes menés par des chercheurs depuis la fin du XIX e siècle, qui viennent confirmer dans certains cas que l’inculturation et ses symptômes se sont manifestés seulement aux XIXe et XXe siècles.