Listening to the Fur Trade: Sound, Music, and Dance in Northern North America 1760-1840

• Main Author: Laxer, Daniel Robert
• Other Authors: Greer, Allan, Bohaker, Heidi, History
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Dance; Encounters; Fur Trade; History; Music; Sensory; 0578; Calumet; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/77710

The fur trade in northern North America during the period of 1760-1840 introduced both Europeans and First Nations peoples to new sounds, musical forms, and dances. Permeating nearly every aspect of the fur trade's operation, from travel and transportation, cross-cultural encounters, establishi...