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Avatar and the Wh*te Imagination (or lack thereof)
about the limits of white imagination and how evident it is in the Avatar movies, and it just reminded me that james cameron worked with an ethnomusicologist, Dr Wanda Bryant, to make music for the na'vi because he wanted something that "would sound like nothing we’ve ever heard on earth" then he decided what was made was too otherworldly and decided that their music should just be what white people would call "alien" and ethnic, aka, whatever music exists in African, Asian and Native American cultures (and that was the final result).
Originally there were many influences coming from all over the globe, but when Cameron listened to the demos, he claimed it was too recognisable as well as too 'weird', albeit for white people and just pushed for a more 'down to earth' version. Avatar is evidence of the continuation of generalized exoticism and stereotyping still being a driving force in Hollywood
[IMAGE ID: A screenshot of a segment from the journal entry written by ethnomusicologist, Dr Bryant discussing the process of creating the music for the avatar films that reads:
"In our initial phone conversation, Horner asked me to find unusual musical sounds that “no one has heard before,” by which he really meant sounds not readily recognizable by the average American movie-goer as belonging to a specific culture, time period, or geographical location"
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[IMAGE ID: A screenshot of a paragraph from the journal entry written by ethnomusicologist, Dr Bryant discussing the process of creating the music for the avatar films that reads:
"Through a process of elimination we came up with 25 workable possibilities, including examples of Swedish cattle herding calls, folk dance songs from the Naga people of Northeast India, Vietnamese and Chinese traditional work songs, greeting songs from Burundi, Celtic and Norwegian medieval laments, Central African vocal polyphony, Persian tahrir, microtonal works by Scelsi, the Finnish women’s group Vârttinä, personal songs from the Central Arctic Inuit, and brush dances from northern California. None was an exact blueprint of what we were seeking, but each had at least one interesting musical device or characteristic that we could utilize. In some cases, it was a timbre that we might hope to mimic; in other cases, it may have been a song structure, an ornamentational style, or interesting intonation."
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[IMAGE ID: A screenshot of a paragraph from the journal entry written by ethnomusicologist, Dr Bryant discussing the process of creating the music for the avatar films that reads:
"Horner then met with Jim Cameron for his input on our musical ideas. Cameron is a very hands-on director and wants to be kept in the loop about all major decisions. Most of the ideas we presented were dismissed by Cameron out of hand, rejected with appropriately blue language as either too recognizable (“Oh, that’s Bulgarian”) or just “too fucking weird!” Half a dozen examples were approved as possibilities."
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You can read the full article here:
There is also a video by sideways that discusses this (if you don't want to read):
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#avatar#avatar 2#sorry for the long post i just.... its the avatar hater in me#i hate this racist alien franchise so much#ref#text#film#i wasnt sure whether to put any of this under a cut#but i dont think this is too long ill have to see when it posts#Youtube#music
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Public Domain Black History Books
For the day Frederick Douglass celebrated as his birthday (February 14, Douglass Day, and the reason February is Black History Month), here's a selection of historical books by Black authors covering various aspects of Black history (mostly in the US) that you can download For Free, Legally And Easily!
Slave Narratives
This comprised a hugely influential genre of Black writing throughout the 1800s - memoirs of people born (or kidnapped) into slavery, their experiences, and their escapes. These were often published to fuel the abolitionist movement against slavery in the 1820s-1860s and are graphic and uncompromising about the horrors of slavery, the redemptive power of literacy, and the importance of abolitionist support.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - 1845 - one of the most iconic autobiographies of the 1800s, covering his early life when he was enslaved in Maryland, and his escape to Massachusetts where he became a leading figure in the abolition movement.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft - 1860 - the memoir of a married couple's escape from slavery in Georgia, to Philadelphia and eventually to England. Ellen Craft was half-white, the child of her enslaver, but she could pass as white, and she posed as her husband William's owner to get them both out of the slave states. Harrowing, tense, and eminently readable - I honestly think Part 1 should be assigned reading in every American high school in the antebellum unit.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs writing under the name Linda Brent - 1861 - writing specifically to reach white women and arguing for the need for sisterhood and solidarity between white and Black women, Jacobs writes of her childhood in slavery and how terrible it was for women and mothers even under supposedly "nice" masters including supposedly "nice" white women.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - 1853 - Born a free Black man in New York, Northup was kidnapped into slavery as an adult and sold south to Louisiana. This memoir of the brutality he endured was the basis of the 2013 Oscar-winning movie.
Early 1900s Black Life and Philosophy
Slavery is of course not the only aspect of Black history, and writers in the late 1800s and early 1900s had their own concerns, experiences, and perspectives on what it meant to be Black.
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington - 1901 - an autobiography of one of the most prominent African-American leaders and educators in the late 1800s/early 1900s, about his experiences both learning and teaching, and the power and importance of equal education. Race relations in the Reconstruction era Southern US are a major concern, and his hope that education and equal dignity could lead to mutual respect has... a long way to go still.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois - 1903 - an iconic work of sociology and advocacy about the African-American experience as a people, class, and community. We read selections from this in Anthropology Theory but I think it should be more widely read than just assigned in college classes.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois - 1920 - collected essays and poems on race, religion, gender, politics, and society.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson - 1908 - Black history doesn't have to be about racism. Matthew Henson was a sailor and explorer and was the longtime companion and expedition partner of Robert Peary. This is his adventure-memoir of the expedition that reached the North Pole. (Though his descriptions of the Indigenous Greenlandic Inuit people are... really paternalistic in uncomfortable ways even when he's trying to be supportive.)
Poetry
Standard Ebooks also compiles poetry collections, and here are some by Black authors.
Langston Hughes - 1920s - probably the most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
James Weldon Johnson - early 1900s through 1920s - tends to be in a more traditionalist style than Hughes, and he preferred the term for the 1920s proliferation of African-American art "the flowering of Negro literature."
Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis - 1830s - a Black abolitionist poet, this is more of a chapbook of her work that was published in newspapers than a full book collection. There are very common early-1800s poetry themes of love, family, religion, and nostalgia, but overwhelmingly her topic was abolition and anti-slavery, appealing to a shared womanhood.
Science Fiction
This is Black history to me - Samuel Delany's first published novel, The Jewels of Aptor, a sci-fi adventure from the early 60s that encapsulates a lot of early 60s thoughts and anxieties. New agey religion, forgotten technology mistaken for magic, psychic powers, nuclear war, post-nuclear society that feels more like a fantasy kingdom than a sci-fi world until they sail for the island that still has all the high tech that no one really knows how to use... it's a quick and entertaining read.
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Reawakening Our Ancestor’s Lines and Other AIYLA Titles
When I was in the library the other day, a book cover caught my eye. Somehow I had missed out on this book that was released in 2017. I’m sure I saw the list when it was honored by The American Indian Library Association back in 2020, but I never got my hands on Reawakening Our Ancestors’ Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing until this week. It’s a gorgeous book that features Inuit women who are reviving the traditional art of tattooing. The author, Angela Hovak Johnston, learned how to tattoo herself and others and the book shares that journey with others.
For thousands of years, Inuit women practiced the traditional art of tattooing. Created with bone needles and caribou sinew soaked in seal oil or soot, these tattoos were an important tradition for many women, symbols stitched in their skin that connected them to their families and communities.But with the rise of missionaries and residential schools in the North, the tradition of tattooing was almost lost. In 2005, when Angela Hovak Johnston heard that the last Inuk woman tattooed in the traditional way had died, she set out to tattoo herself and learn how to tattoo others. What was at first a personal quest became a project to bring the art of traditional tattooing back to Inuit women across Nunavut, starting in the community of Kugluktuk. Collected in this beautiful book are moving photos and stories from more than two dozen women who participated in Johnston’s project. Together, these women are reawakening their ancestors’ lines and sharing this knowledge with future generations. [publisher summary]
This book is just one of the many that have won or been honored over the years. In case you’ve missed any of the titles, here are a few other YA books that have made the American Indian Youth Literature Award lists:
Apple Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth (Onandoga)
The term “Apple��� is a slur in Native communities across the country. It’s for someone supposedly “red on the outside, white on the inside.” Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians)
As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in—both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When her family is struck by tragedy, Daunis puts her dreams on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother’s hockey team.
After Daunis witnesses a shocking murder that thrusts her into a criminal investigation, she agrees to go undercover. But the deceptions—and deaths—keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home. How far will she go to protect her community if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known?
Soldiers Unknown by Chag Lowry (Yurok, Maidu and Achumawi)
The graphic novel Soldiers Unknown is a historically accurate World War One story told from the perspective of Native Yurok soldiers. The novel is based on extensive military research and on oral interviews of family members of Yurok WW1 veterans from throughout Humboldt and Del Norte counties. The author Chag Lowry is of Yurok, Maidu, and Achumawi ancestry, and the illustrator Rahsan Ekedal was raised in southern Humboldt. Soldiers Unknown takes place during the battle of the Meuse-Argonne in France in 1918, which is the largest battle in American Army history.
Marrow Thieves and the sequel Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline (Metis Nation of Ontario)
Marrow Thieves – Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams.
Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The Indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden – but what they don”t know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) and illustrated by Ciara Sana (Chamoru)
An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers in this beautifully illustrated collection. From luminaries of the past, like nineteenth-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis--the first Black and Native American female artist to achieve international fame--to contemporary figures like linguist jessie little doe baird, who revived the Wampanoag language, Notable Native People highlights the vital impact Indigenous dreamers and leaders have made on the world.
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache Tribe)
Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered. Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and it’s dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started? A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People adapted by Debbie Reese (Nambé Owingeh) and Jean Mendoza from the adult book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism.
Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity.
The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.
Surviving the City written by Tasha Spillet (Nehiyaw-Trinidadian) and illustrated by Natasha Donovan (Métis Nation of British Columbia)
Tasha Spillett's graphic novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, colonialism, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't?
To learn about even more books that have received this award, be sure to check out the AILA page.
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im still reading this book about the franklin expedition so who wants facts about the terror characters vs their real life inspiration? you? right this way sir
Netsilingmiut tradition is to lay a dead person to rest on the ground wrapped in furs and surrounded by stones, and then to avoid that area for the next year. leaving them uncovered is so their soul can either return to nature or inhabit the body of a namesake, and it also prevents the impossible work of digging a grave in permafrost. i’m interested in this re: terror because silna’s father was covered up with ice, which can’t have helped her or him, and because of how hickey breaks taboo by returning to the site where fitzjames is buried
contrary to book canon, peglar knew how to write long before meeting bridgens, due to some rudimentary charity schooling and a sort of trade/prep school for the navy or merchant mariners. he served many voyages in good standing except once when he was lashed for mutinous behavior and drunkenness, but his reputation seems to have bounced back
the body that the peglar papers was found with was likely actually jopson, who may have befriended him on an earlier voyage they served on together
while im talking about peglar, this isn’t a fact but I am dead certain that dan simmons made him gay bc he had no other explanation for why the peglar papers are written backward than bc he was imitating da vinci (book canon). also book peglar has dysgraphia to explain why he’s highly literate but the peglar papers had terrible spelling
blanky had studied the ice and was an arctic veteran but reid was an experienced whaler who made decisions on gut instinct. fitzjames liked him despite calling him a “so-called” ice master in his diary
hickey’s mutiny, which in the book was his men trying to get back to the ships, was likely inspired by one of the first identified signs of franklin’s men: two skeletons, gnawed likely by wolves, found in a boat on a sledge pointing back toward the icebound ships. the sledge was full of random stuff including five watches and china plates, which the explorer who found it ten years after the ships’ abandonment lamented were considered useless dead weight in this modern age of arctic exploration. you see a bit of hickey’s men collecting useless things in the show (when they’re sitting at a table and chairs using plates and cutlery) but it’s an even more prominent theme in the book
sir john brought along a lot of slates and chalk and intended the men to be taught to read and write during any winters they spent trapped in ice
some Inuit lore says that the northern lights are dangerous, with one specific folk story being that if you whistle, they will come down to cut off your head. this is not a fact about the terror characters but it is a reminder to me to see if the bosun’s whistle sounding in the show foreshadows any decapitations
aglooka means “takes long strides” but it took a Netsilingmiuk historian to make sense of what stories about an Aglooka meant for the fate of the franklin expedition. that’s bc it was a name given to many white explorers, including crozier and james clark ross (i guess bc white people walked differently in the arctic? or were taller?). anyway everyone clap and cheer for Louie Kamookak for figuring this out almost incidentally while he was trying to write a history of the Netsilingmiuk
#the terror lb#ish#my posts#the terror#reading tag#side note this book doesn’t give a shit about crozier which is very funny#there are photos of three of the terror men: sir john fitzjames and REID. REID!!
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Music Born of the Cold
Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq won the Polaris Prize in 2014 for Canada's best album of the year. Animism contained sounds never heard before in Canadian pop music: breathy throat singing, screeches, roars and other human sounds for which the English language has no names. Tagaq's music was ambiguous. She seemed a shamanic figure.
Suddenly, she and other throat singers were everywhere. Indigenous artist Caroline Monnet incorporated Tagaq soundtracks into her hypnotic art videos. Some touring rock groups hired throat singers as opening acts. For a time, no television variety program was complete without a guest spot for throat singers.
Tagaq may have seemed like a new and unique voice. But she had basically jazzed up a genre of Inuit music that has been performed on the land we now call Canada for thousands of years. Inuit throat singing, or katajjaq, is a distinct type of throat singing uniquely found among the Inuit. It is a form of musical performance, traditionally consisting of two women who sing duets in a close face-to-face formation with no instrumental accompaniment, in an entertaining contest to see who can outlast the other. One singer leads by setting a short rhythmic pattern, which she repeats leaving brief silent intervals between each repetition. The other singer fills in the gap with another rhythmic pattern.
The sounds used include voiced sounds as well as unvoiced ones, both through inhalation or exhalation. The first to run out of breath or be unable to maintain the pace of the other singer will start to laugh or simply stop and will thus be eliminated from the game. It generally lasts between one and three minutes. The winner is the singer who beats the largest number of people.
Originally, katajjaq was a form of entertainment among Inuit women while men were away on hunting trips, and it was regarded more as a type of vocal or breathing game in the Inuit culture rather than a form of music. Katajjiniq sound can create an impression of rhythmic and harmonious panting. Inuit throat singing can also imitate wind, water, animal sounds and other everyday sounds.
Notable traditional performers include Qaunak Mikkigak, Kathleen Ivaluarjuk Merritt, as well as Alacie Tullaugaq and Lucy Amarualik who perform in the katajjaq style. Several groups, including Tudjaat, The Jerry Cans, Quantum Tangle and Silla + Rise, also now blend traditional throat singing with mainstream musical genres such as pop, folk, rock and dance music.
Tudjaat (Madeleine Allakariallak and Phoebe Atagotaaluk) performed on the song "Rattlebone" from Robbie Robertson's 1998 album Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy. The album is composed of music inspired by Aboriginal Canadian music (including traditional Aboriginal Canadian songs and chants), as well as modern rock, trip hop, and electronica, with the various styles often integrated together in the same song.
To learn more, watch this video of Inuit throat-singing sisters Karin and Kathy Kettler from Canada. The sisters carry on the traditions of the elders from their mothers' village in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, which is located in northern Quebec.
#inuit culture#throat singing#world music#shamanic music#free music#music review#first nations#indigenous cultures
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Various Artists — Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking (Spinster)
It’s somewhat surprising that an organization that describes itself as a “feminist record label” should make its second mixtape compilation about food and cooking, among the most stereotypical and traditional of female activities. However, as the tape demonstrates, different women have different attitudes about the domestic arts — some warm and comfortable and full of love, others rebelling against the forced servitude that is so often entailed. I myself had a brief period in my mid-20s when I refused to cook out of some sort of inchoate resentment of the patriarchy. I came around when I realized that eating would be a lot more enjoyable, not to mention cheaper, if I learned some of the basics.
In any case, this diverse and lovely collection reclaims the kitchen for artists and thinkers, and significantly, not all of them are women (Avey Tare and Michael Hurley contribute cuts, as well as the mixed gender Magic Tuber String Band). They come primarily from the more adventurous end of folk music that Spinster focuses on, but not entirely. There are Inuit throat singers of PIQSIQ and the improvisatory percussionist Jess Tsang (who incorporates an electric mixer into her track) to break up the picking.
The tracks are so lovely and so much each its own world that it’s to choose favorites, nonetheless Sally Anne Morgan’s luminous “Grain Song,” imbues country fiddle and plucked strings with otherworldly resonance, while Lou Turner’s “Ride the Melting” is characteristically smart, surprising and beautiful. Magic Tuber String Band’s minor key hoedown “Bill Henseley’s Hoppin’ John” is as satisfying as the grain-based sustenance it celebrates, while Little Mazarn’s “Thankgiving,” limns happy memories with melancholy in banjo, bowed saw and plaintive voice.
The prompt for all the tracks, apparently, was “If you made music the way you cook, what would it sound like?” and poet Crystal Good’s “Food Poem” answers that question with silence. Good doesn’t cook, and her track makes it plain why not, in the blighted relationship between her mother and step-father, where nothing was ever good enough, and the happier pairing of her dad and step-mother, where food defined the woman of the house to the exclusion of everything else. The track is a bit of an outlier in a compilation that generally celebrates cooking and food and family, but a bracing one. Like the handful of bitter greens that makes the soup so good, her anger makes the rest sound all the more inviting. Women and food. It’s complicated.
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#Measure#Pour & Mixtape#spinster#jennifer kelly#albumreview#dusted magazine#sally anne morgan#lou turner#magic tuber string band#cooking#food#compilation
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7. Nature Interpretation Through Music
Although asking where is music in nature and where is nature in music may appear as straight forward questions, there is much to dissect. Nature and music heavily influence one another, they are constantly overlapping, and building off each other. For me, answering these questions involves both subjectivity and objectivity. On one hand I have a clear understanding of where I notice music in nature and nature in music. However, then there are areas where I cannot distinguish where is music in nature and where is nature in music because of how interconnected music and nature are. I believe there are areas where both music can be seen in nature and nature can be seen in music simultaneously. One example where I see the two concepts/questions co-existing is at the Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre located in Morrison, Colorado.
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TikTok User: makaylasutton Performer: Zach Bryan Location: Red Rocks Park Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado
Venues and locations such as this one creates opportunities for music to exist in natural landscapes, while also allowing nature to be incorporated into a musical experience. Their mutual existence provides this extremely impactful and novel experience that can move people in ways that may not be achievable without either factor. For me, these kinds of interactions hugely impact the way I value concerts; I feel far more inclined to spend money on an experience that feels all-encompassing. I am the most present when I can turn my face up to the sky and take in my surroundings, whether it be a starry night, a clear blue day, or torrential downpour, while being exposed to the organic nature of live music that creates the most synergetic, synchronized experience.
All over the world ancestral and indigenous groups have developed musical practices and ceremonies that provide varying meaning and importance to each group. Majority of indigenous and ancestral groups have a close relationship with nature, often viewing themselves and nature as part of an extended ecological family that shares ancestry and origins. There is a perceived relatedness to each other and all natural elements of an ecosystem that is honoured, respected, and celebrated (Salmón, 2000). The ceremonies and practices that take place to honour, respect and celebrate this close relationship often take place in nature, incorporate nature, and/or are heavily influenced by nature. For example, Inuit ceremonies and celebrations tell stories, mimic nature, and celebrate events such as the first successful hunt of a young boy or the birth of a child using drums made from caribou skin. In addition, another cultural practice is Inuit throat singing which replicates the sounds of nature, such as a flock of geese or the Qamuti gliding on ice (Stepping Stones, 2019). This serves as another intersection where both music can be found in nature and nature can be found in music.
There are so many ways to perceive where is music in nature and where is nature in music. Music in nature can be seen through animals and the ambient sounds of different biomes. Whales, birds, and humans have many similarities in structure in the songs they use to communicate such as rhythmic variation, pitch relationships, permutations, and combinations of notes (Gray et al. 2001). In The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music there is mention if songs can be defined as “any rhythmic repeated utterance,” if so then I consider the sounds of waves crashing on a beach or the sounds of a storm to be an example of music in nature (Gray et al. 2001). Similarly, to indigenous songs and music, nature can be seen in music through folk singers and poets in all cultures. There is expression of the relationship between man and nature, and traditional ways of co-operation with nature through this art form (Sahi, 2012). In addition, nature can be seen in both modern and traditional music through the integration of natural sounds (Sahi, 2012). For example, the intro to a song I love called, Short Change Hero truly sets a scene for the rest of the song; you can hear thunder and wind from a storm, and the rustling of dirt and gravel underneath someone’s feet as they walk. Although both music and nature are beautiful on their own and both can be seen in one another, nothing may be more impactful than the connectivity between the two and what it can do for life on earth.
The song Candy by Paolo Nutini is a song that I connect to in many ways; I think the main reason why I feel such a strong connection to this song is because of the feelings and memories it evokes. I listened to this song on my first solo trip out west to British Columbia, a place I have a deep love for due to my previous trips and family ties. This was my first time going alone; I was coming out of a time where I felt like I was facing so many tests to see if I was strong enough to be there for myself and trust that I was ready to face whatever was thrown my way. At the time it was the freest I had ever felt, I believed that nothing could stand in my way. This was the song I listened to as my plane took off from Toronto during sunset, it was the first song I played when I left my hotel for any adventure on the west coast, and it was what I listened to when I was admiring and reflecting on the beauty of British Columbia. However, the core memory I associate it with was when I was hiking the Whistler and Blackcomb Mountain range. I had never experienced anything like it; although it was not the top of the world, it felt like it. It was late August, so the air was still warm, but the mountain breeze was crisp and the freshest air I had been exposed to. I don’t know how many times I listened to this song when I was up there, but every time I hear it, I am flooded with memories and feelings from that trip to the mountains.
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This is a photo of me at the top of Blackcomb Mountain
Gray, P. M., Krause, B., Atema, J., Payne, R., Krumhansl, C., & Baptista, L. (2001). The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music. Science’s Compass, 29, 52-54.
Sahi, V. (2012). Using folk traditional music to communicate the sacredness of nature in Finland. In Mallarach, J.-M. (Ed.), Spiritual Values of Protected Areas of Europe Workshop Proceedings (129-132). Bundesamt für Naturschutz.
Salmón, E. (2000). Kincentric Ecology: Indigenous perceptions of the human–nature relationship. Ecological Applications, 10(5), 1327–1332. https://doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1327:keipot]2.0.co;2
Stepping Stones. (2019). First Nations, Métis and Inuit Music and Dance (Chapter 10). Alberta Teachers’ Association Walking Together: Education for Reconciliation. https://legacy.teachers.ab.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/ATA/For%20Members/ProfessionalDevelopment/Walking%20Together/PD-WT-16j-10%20Music%20and%20Dance.pdf
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There are a lot of Animal Rights issues that I tend to avoid.
Are Zoos ethical? I think keeping Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Dolphins, etc. can be very unethical cause (in my limited understanding) their intelligence is not too too far away from our own. So... I think there is a lot of concerning questions when we talk about those types animals.
But then Zoos also provide economic enrichment and entertainment. They can please tourists and locals alike, which I think giving your local populace (and tourists looking to spend money) something to do... is a wise decision.
Zoos provide an educational experience, that books and movies can never achieve. Zoos can inspire the imagination and dreams of Children, who look at these magnificent beasts gathered from across the world and their mind starts to wonder.
Even Circuses are a complicated topic. Because, yes, animal abuse is riddled throughout those institutions. But circuses are almost a subject of culture. Circuses have been in business for generations, those folks have their own traditions and a unique lifestyle. (Not justifying animal abuse, just not advocating for the dismantling of circuses.)
A lot of things, I feel, come down to a case-by-case basis. Which is not always easily parsed out if you are a complete outsider to these institutions (the zoos or the circuses).
The biggest one... is definitely with whaling, seal hunting, and fishing practices. Where a lot of petitions target Indigenous Communities (and even Far-Northern European Communities tbh).... for killing aquatic mammals. But these communities often have been doing these practices for hundreds of years, actually thousands of years. The whale population and seal population isn't being driven to extinction by an Inuit Tribe. (Apologies if this sounds dehumanizing) Indigenous Peoples have been an incredibly important part to ecosystems for thousands of years. Keeping populations down, but not driving those populations to extinction. They are a part of a balance. When White Settlers came over, we killed the Indigenous People and killed most of the predators (bears, wolves, cougars, etc.) and... fundamentally threw everything out-of-balance.
I do think there needs to be more protection for animals (pangolins, sharks, rhinos, red pandas, cheetahs, tigers, lions, elephants, crocodiles, fish, dogs, cats, turtles, sea turtles, etc, etc, etc.). I hate poaching and trophy hunting. But there are a lot of things I am nowhere near as confident in. Because I think when one deals with animal rights, they are often thrust into ideas of culture and clashes of culture. And there is inevitably going to be an element of Western Chauvinism (which I'm definitely guilty of when it comes to this issue), even when you have the best of intentions.
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Inuit family, Valerie, Joshua and Michael Qaunaq, Canada, by Acacia Jones
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Contextual scripture information for my very own 16^12 DR (1/?)
For my upcoming "Shiftblr" article... '(Klara Kér Wishlist & Reality Shifting Scripture '(date-stamp 2024-01.1))
16^12 (campaign setting) is both a speculative fiction shared universe (campaign setting in a style somewhere between soft Science-Fiction, Isekai fantasy & alternate history/future... ) & a deliberate shifting destination for long-term reality-shifters. My focus is mostly onto making a comfortable yet self-contained realm to live in for extended periods of time, and is inspired mostly from several previous Civilization 5 campaigns of mine, among a ocean of other sources I take hints from.
Essentially, I work onto a expansive yet open source-esque history from cosmogony to heat death that focuses onto the time travel-ly mess of far future moth-folk agents cataloging history of a singular planet. And the overall feel is optimistic, silly, wholesome, empowering yet honest & grounded in historical trends extruded into the future. It ties also with many smaller stories (like the major self-obvious one I write a book for) across the meta-narrative structures I edify here.
In what I would consider the present day (what relates closest to our 2024 AD) on such a habitable planet, There are ~24 major Civilizations present, with ~20 major religions & ~16 major agencies roaming about the planet.
24 major civilizations (not counting the 48-288 minor civilizations)
Shoshones
Morocco
Assyria
Poland
Persia
Portuguese
Babylon
Mayas
Incas
Brazil
Korea
Carthage
Aremorici
Vietnam
Samoa
Scotland
Burgundy
Hungary
Angola
Blackfoot
Sweden
Songhay
Inuit
Sumer
Hittites
20 major religions
Pohakantenna (Shoshoni / Numic pantheon)
Angakkunngurniq (Inuit pantheon)
Confucianism tradition (and dialects like Shinto…)
Al-Asnam (Celtic druidic pantheon)
Mwari Cult? (Carib animistic pantheon)
Arianism (iterated from the defunct Christianity dialect)
Chaldeanism (Mesopotamian pantheon)
Calvinism (derived from the Protestant Reformation’s Huguenot Southern French, monotheism)
Tala-e-Fonua (Polynesian Samoan pantheon)
Hussitism (central slavic dialect of monotheism)
Jainism (communal humility & individualized ki monks culture)
Buddhism (inner way reincarnation & large monasteries)
Judaism
Zoroastrianism
Ibadiyya (Islam)
Canaanism (Carthaginian belief system)
Pesedjet (Numidan Hieroglyphics belief system)
Wakan Tanka (Blackfoot religion)
Intiism (Inca pantheon)
Tzolk'in (Mayan pantheon)
16 Agencies (syndicated cooperatives)
Pflaumen (DEC + Zuse KG)
Utalics (Symbolics)
Salamar (Samoans' own globalized Siemens)
EBM (OpenPOWER IBM)
IEC (ICL that succeeded in eastern markets)
Vera Electronics (Sun Microsystems)
Gloss Foundation (Free Software Foundation)
Macroware (Microsoft)
Commodore Open Systems (Commodore)
Czar Vanguard (polish Nintendo / Atari equivalent)
Tekla Electric Motors (major player keeping the electric cars industry up since the 1910s)
Olivetti (as-is)
Tsunami Design Systems (industrial designers firm)
Wyatt Energetics (nuclear fusion+ electric energy providers)
Keller Databanks (Hitachi)
Desjardins (as-is financial decentralized cooperative)
Granted, my own preferences are reflected in here as per my customized alternative history changes still apply here, especially the "No Woodrow Wilson presidency, Theodore Roosevelt 1912-1916" path. Will detail soon.
Ofc there are a few some more changes, but the very core really ties to a balance between realistic familiarity and the added comfort / amenities, hence the kinda conservatively few changes I pushed forth. That being said, I will try making source files for GPlates, QGIS & more available once I feel it is ready for preview beta usage alongside required documentation.
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DARKENING SKIES
by Marco Coraggio
Synopsis: This video work aims to be a warning on the subject of climate change which leaves no room for doubt: it's now or never! If we do not act now, we will not be able to halve emissions by 2030, the deadline set by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to save humanity from the effects of global warming. A burning topic that now concerns us very closely, because we increasingly experience its harmful effects on our skin.
Soundtrack mixed by Marco Coraggio:
Guttural and harmonic diphonic songs, traditional poliphonic songs, sacred a cappella polyphonies, popular and folk songs that use polyphony or monodic singing, coming from traditional tenor songs of Sardinia and than from Mongolia, Maori, Tibet, Africa, Baka, Tuvan, Inuit, Nomads, Tantra, Aborigines, Swedish, Xhosa Tribe, King's College Choir, Cambridge, England, Stellenbosch University Choir, South Africa, Khusungtun, and many others from all over the World.
Video Footage and Editing by Marco Coraggio
Graphic & Communication Design by Teresa Coraggio
Created NOT FOR PROFIT purposes with materials found in the public domain or released under CC0
Made in Salerno, Italy
Sunday, 29 October ©2023
All rights reserved
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World's Finest Heli-ski Operator 2022 « World Ski Awards
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It’s a part of our No Restrictions method to journey, and that includes COVID-19, too. “There is more heli-skiing alternative and accessibility but the terrain still requires a excessive level of skiing ability. Having an experienced information with a reputable operator who can assess your ability and match it to the terrain you ski is a must Heli skiing,” he mentioned. Heli-skiing is off-trail, downhill skiing or snowboarding that's carried out with out using a ski carry. It all began greater than half a century in the past when the first helicopters had been employed to visit isolated areas in Alaska and Europe.
Set out from a heli-ski base located among the many fjords of Baffin Island to succeed in untouched wildernesses that let you be the among the first to ski such slopes. Cookson hosts clients in a non-public assortment of Pacific Domes, which embody eating and club-house tents, while providing exploration of the slopes via snow-cat and helicopter. As properly as challenging yourself with some of the world’s longest couloirs and highest vertical cliff faces, you’re able to experience the tradition of the native Inuit folks. As above with the opposite gear, there are some advantages to utilizing rental gear from your heli op.
To warm up the legs, ski a number of days at Whitewater Ski Resort, it's noted as "Best Ski Town in North America". It pays to think exterior of the field when planning a heliski journey. The advice and suggestions listed about should allow you to to plan an reasonably priced heliski trip, but the one determination that may make the most difference to the ultimate Heli skiing Canada worth is the destination. Utah's premier heli-skiing operation flying out of Little Cottonwood Canyon. In a area that receives metres (40-60 feet) of snowfall each winter, Selkirk Tangiers will blow you away with unbelievable powder conditions. Although very distant, our friends get pleasure from easy accessibility with direct flights from Vancouver to Terrace, BC where they are met by our awaiting Heli for a 15 min transfer to their lodge.
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Inuit hunter statue.
Region: Cape Dorset, Canada.
The semi-nomadic Inuit people of western Canada and Alaska and their forbears, the Tunit peoples, have inhabited the Arctic for around 5,000 years. They were accomplished hunters of the larger sea mammals and are well-known for their superb whalebone and soapstone carvings. They mainly hunted seals, walruses and whales on the pack ice and along with fish, these mammals provided the Inuit with most of their meat. They also hunted the polar bear for its hide. Their expertise gave the Inuit a richer and more prosperous lifestyle than many other native peoples in North America, with the leisure to make carvings like this whalebone hunter.
The carving shows a man wielding a club which would have been used when hunting seals. Cape Dorset, where this piece is from, is a settlement on Baffin Island in Canada, and the area remains the capital of Inuit art today, with hundreds of traditional folk artists creating statues, carvings and other artworks in the typical Inuit style.
Source: ‘Folk Art’, Susann Linn-Williams, pp. 170- 171.
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Celebrating Amazing Women for the Month of March: Tanya Tagaq
Celebrating Inspirational Women throughout the month of March.
Tanya Tagaq
Born: May 5, 1975 in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
Tanya is a Canadian Inuk throat singer, songwriter, novelist and visual artist.
She was 15 when she went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to attend Sir John Franklin High School and this is where she first began to practice throat singing.
She later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing. Throat singing is normally done by two women but she was lacking a singing partner and didn’t want to give up on her passion.
She was a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals such as 2005 Folk on the Rocks. Tanya became widely known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Bjork, which included concert tours and 2004 album Medulla. She’s performed with many other musicians and bands.
Tanya is a vocal supporter of traditional Inuit sealing and Indigenous land rights. She’s not a fan of PETA. In 2016 Tanya was one of the 16 Indigenous “movers and shakers to watch” broadcasted on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, for her activism against “to expose hard truths about systemic racism in governments, missing and murdered Indigenous women and proudly supporting the practices and preservation of her culture such as seal hunting.
In 2020 she provided the narration for “End of the Road” and music video about the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, by the rock band Crown Lands.
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