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This short piece proceeds as a dialgoue about the Indigenous black metal project, Gyibaaw, active in Northern BC between 2006 and 2012. The band was not particularly well-known, and yet their music had influential followers around the world and was prefigurative of the Indigenous resurgence politics...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936 2023-08-27T04:12:23+02:00 Gyitwaalkt: A Dialogue on Tsimshian War and Metal ... Ritts, Max Jacob Greening, Spencer 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936 https://ojsx-v-prd.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/189936 en eng BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i198 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936.g187036 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936.g187055 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936.g188392 Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i198.18993610.14288/bcs.v0i19810.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936.g18703610.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936.g18705510.14288/bcs.v0i198.189936.g188392 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z This short piece proceeds as a dialgoue about the Indigenous black metal project, Gyibaaw, active in Northern BC between 2006 and 2012. The band was not particularly well-known, and yet their music had influential followers around the world and was prefigurative of the Indigenous resurgence politics that erupted across Canada with Idle No More. One of us was the drummer and co-songwriter for Gyibaaw. The other is a settler and an author of a recent history of the band. In this piece, we use the conceptual frame of audiopolitics to discuss the decolonizing politics of one of Gyibaaw's songs, Gyitwaalkt. To what extent does this ‘audiopolitics’ express notions of sovereignty and decolonization? What are its capacities and limits? We refuse to conclusively define what we are calling an ‘Indigenous audiopolitics.’ Rather, we use the term as a basis for discussion and exploration, one that speaks to the ambitions of Gyibaaw – and perhaps some of the hundreds of other Indigenous black metal bands that exist around ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 198: Summer 2018 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Tsimshian Tsimshian* DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Canada |
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This short piece proceeds as a dialgoue about the Indigenous black metal project, Gyibaaw, active in Northern BC between 2006 and 2012. The band was not particularly well-known, and yet their music had influential followers around the world and was prefigurative of the Indigenous resurgence politics that erupted across Canada with Idle No More. One of us was the drummer and co-songwriter for Gyibaaw. The other is a settler and an author of a recent history of the band. In this piece, we use the conceptual frame of audiopolitics to discuss the decolonizing politics of one of Gyibaaw's songs, Gyitwaalkt. To what extent does this ‘audiopolitics’ express notions of sovereignty and decolonization? What are its capacities and limits? We refuse to conclusively define what we are calling an ‘Indigenous audiopolitics.’ Rather, we use the term as a basis for discussion and exploration, one that speaks to the ambitions of Gyibaaw – and perhaps some of the hundreds of other Indigenous black metal bands that exist around ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 198: Summer 2018 ... |
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