Ugly Publics

Abstract This essay takes up a collaboration between Inuk singer Tanya Tagaq and Greenlandic mask dancer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory to theorize a form of dominant public I call an “ugly public.” Ugly publics rely on the difference between audiences (the people in the room) and publics (which are n...

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Published in:Ethnomusicology
Main Author: Chana, Nadia
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Illinois Press 2023
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.3.07
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