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- Title
Pamyua's Akutaq: Traditions of Modern Inuit Modalities in Alaska.
- Authors
PEREA, JESSICA BISSETT
- Abstract
This essay positions the award-winning band Pamyua's "Afro-lnuit"soundscapes and business acumen as characteristic of lnuit modernities, interrupting static notions of cultural music and questioning what "Native"can mean at this moment. I situate Pamyua's personal and musical alliances along a historical trajectory of circumpolar lnuit transnationalism to illustrate the ways in which the group's musical modernities are uniquely rooted in each member's familial and socio- cultural soundscapes. I also explore the development of"Pamyua, Inc."and Arctic Voice Records as a means to subvert what I call "sound quantum"politics through the revisioning of music industry practices using lnuit knowledge.
- Subjects
MUSIC &; culture; PAMYUA (Performer); ALASKAN Eskimos; MODERNIST music; MUSIC &; transnationalism; ARCTIC Voice Records (Company)
- Publication
MUSICultures, 2012, Vol 39, p7
- ISSN
1920-4213
- Publication type
Essay