This book explores several musical styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene that has emerged in the western Canadian province of Manitoba. Focusing on fiddling, country music, and Christian hymnody, as well as step dancing and the pow-wow, author Byron Dueck advances a groundbreaking new performative theory of music culture that acknowledges tradition without losing sight of the dynamic negotiations that bring it into being.

• Acknowledgments


• Chapter 1 Introduction: Publicity, Counterpublicity, Antipublicity


• Chapter 2 Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and Métis Fiddling


• Chapter 3 "#1 on NCI": Country Music and the Aboriginal Public


• Chapter 4 "Your Own Heart Will Make its Own Music": Gospel Singing, Individuation, and the Comforting Community


• Preface to Chapter 5


• Chapter 5 "We Don't Want to Say No to Anybody Who Wants to Sing": Gospel Music in Coffee-House Performance


• Chapter 6 Antipublicity: Family Tradition and the Aboriginal Public


• Chapter 7 Circulation Controversies


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

Byron Dueck is a lecturer in ethnomusicology at the Open University. He received his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2005. His research interests include First Nations and Métis music and dance in North America, popular music in Cameroon, and jazz performance in the United Kingdom. His work in these diverse areas is connected by overarching interests in musical publics, performances of national multiculturalism, and the social implications of rhythm and meter.