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“All There Is”: The Reconciliatory Poetics of a Singing Voice
Author(s) -
TaylorNeu Robyn
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1111/aman.13003
Subject(s) - ideology , poetics , multiculturalism , presupposition , sociology , context (archaeology) , indigenous , trace (psycholinguistics) , singing , aesthetics , politics , poetry , media studies , gender studies , linguistics , literature , history , art , political science , law , philosophy , archaeology , pedagogy , ecology , management , biology , economics
In this article, I argue that popular representations of Tanya Tagaq, an Indigenous Canadian musician, shore up a reconciliatory project by mobilizing voice ideologies within densely poetic texts. I trace how commonly held presuppositions and fantasies about Indigeneity in the Canadian multicultural context emerge through and are reinforced by formal aspects of music‐critical discourse. By analyzing how discourse on cultural production figurates reconciliation at various scales, this article contributes to critical understandings of liberal multicultural politics of reconciliation. In so doing, it offers insight into an entanglement of voice, language, and media ideologies in popular journalistic discourse on cultural difference. [ voice, reconciliation, semiotics, Indigeneity, Canada ]