Intercultural Art Music and the Sensory Veracity of Reconciliation: Brent Michael Davids’ Powwow Symphony on the Dakota Music Tour
Author(s):
Dylan Robinson
Publication Year:
2012
Type:
journal article
Journal/Book Title
MUSICultures
Publisher
Editor(s):
Pages:
111-128
Volume:
39
Issue:
1
Abstract:
This article questions music’s particular stake in Indigenous initiatives of redress and reconciliation.It examines music’s media-specific relationship with redress and reconciliation,and public discourses that situate intercultural art music performance as a medium of reconciliation. In addressing intercultural art music’s abilities to engender reconciliation, the article considers its social and political efficacy from two perspectives. Firstly, it offers a brief survey of the public and academic discourses on music’s ability to engender reconciliation. Secondly, it examines how the discourse of music’s power for reconciliation played out in an a performance of Mohican composer Brent Michael Davids’ Powwow Symphony presented as part of the Dakota MusicTour (2010) in Minnesota.
Citation (Chicago Author-Date):
Robinson, Dylan. 2012. “Intercultural Art Music and the Sensory Veracity of Reconciliation: Brent Michael Davids’ Powwow Symphony on the Dakota Music Tour.” MUSICultures 39 (1): 111–28. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/19997.