Native American Music in Eastern North America

Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of the first books to explore the contemporary musical landscape of indigenous North Americans in the north and east. It shows how performance traditions of Native North Americans have been influenced by traditional social values and cultural histories, as well as by encounters and exchanges with other indigenous groups and with newcomers from Europe and Africa. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork and on case studies from several communities--including the Iroquois, the Algonquian-speaking nations of the Atlantic seaboard, and the Inuit of the far north--author Beverley Diamond discusses intertribal celebrations, popular music projects, dance, art, and film. The book is packaged with an 80-minute audio CD containing twenty-six examples of the music discussed in the book. Beverley Diamond is the Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland where she established and directs the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP). Her research includes projects in Canadian historiography, feminist ethnomusicology, explorations of music technology, and indigenous studies. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was named a Trudeau Fellow in 2009.