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Job Opening: University of Manitoba (Review begins March 1, 2022)

2/14/2022

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The Desautels Faculty of Music (DFOM) at the University of Manitoba (UM) is pleased to invite applications for a tenure-track position in Music (any area) for an Indigenous music practitioner and/or scholar. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and begin on July 1, 2022. This opportunity is open to individuals who are Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit). For full details, please see: https://viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX?REQ_ID=19672. 
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Book Announcement

6/26/2017

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IMS member Kristina M. Jacobsen has just published her new ethnography, The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging, with the University of North Carolina Press. Congratulations, Kristina!

From the publisher:

In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of music both the politics of difference and many internal distinctions Diné make among themselves and their fellow Navajo citizens.

​As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.

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Requesting resources

12/8/2015

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We are currently looking for suggested resources for the four ographies pages. Please send the webmaster information for thesis and dissertations, publications, syllabi, and web pages related to Indigenous music research. Each page asks for specific information, but in general, the more information included in the suggestion the better. 

We are also building our membership roster on this site. Membership in the Section is not compromised if you wish to not be listed on this page. The goal is to connect ourselves with others who might be interested in Indigenous music research, giving detailed information and listing here will aid in that goal.
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SEM 2015 in Austin

12/5/2015

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Some great panels and discussions on Indigenous musics this year! The President's roundtable of Indigenous Theory and the Charles Seeger Lecture by Philip J. Deloria were particularly exciting and incredibly important.
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