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- Title
Music and change in Nain, Nunatsiavut: More White does not always mean less Inuit.
- Authors
Artiss, Tom
- Abstract
This paper focuses on Inuitized Western music in Nain, Labrador, as part of a broader look at Inuit responses to change. Drawing on interviews and sustained ethnographic research, I show how a relaxing of strict socio-musical categories coincided with a decline in Moravian missionary influence in the second half of the 20th century. A notable indifference to musical difference is, I suggest, consistent with an Inuit equanimity toward environmental forces of change that "cannot be helped" (ajunamat). I then give reasons why discursive imbalances are a continued concern and show how the effects of sustained colonial and missionary activity (hybridities, mixtures, overlaps, co-presences) do not always produce the emotional and psychic dissonances sometimes associated with postcolonial ambivalence. Ultimately, I propose thinking of Inuitized Western musical forms as visible protrusions of a much deeper substrate of affective continuities and that such inherited ways of being in the world can remain constant even while specific cultural forms may change.
- Subjects
NAIN (N.L.); NATIVE American influences on music; MUSIC &; society; INUIT music; CULTURAL relations; MORAVIAN missionaries; CHRISTIAN missions -- Social aspects; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Études Inuit Studies, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 1/2, p33
- ISSN
0701-1008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1028852ar