New book project:
“Unsettling Sounds of Indigeneity: Reckoning with the White Possessive in Settler-Indigenous Sonic Encounters”
This manuscript will focus on relationships to land and Indigenous Peoples around western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, as well as the Canadian Prairies and Toronto region. These geographic areas follow my geographic journey of studies and work, a journey which necessitates a reckoning of my “hungry listening” habits (Robinson 2020) and how the “white possessive” (Moreton-Robinson 2015) manifest in musicology, music education, performance practice, and everyday interactions.
This book project included a big revision of North American Indigenous Music Seminar to center more Indigenous artists, thinkers, and Knowledge Keepers. The result was the Indigenous Knowledge, Cultures, and Futurities Series that was open to the entire campus.
An Orchestra at My Fingertips: A History of the Canadian Electronic Ensmble was recently published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. See more about the CEE Residency at CMU here.
Book project: “Unsettling Sounds of Indigeneity: Reckoning with the White Possessive in Settler-Indigenous Sonic Encounters.” I am building a community-focused, collaborative, locally-embedded, intersensory, and anti-colonial pedagogical and scholarly practice related to Indigenous topics. To achieve my goals, I am working with local, national, and international Indigenous experts, Knowledge Keepers, and Culture Bearers. My North American Indigenous Seminar has been particularly transformed through a series of co-teachers, sound-movement immersions, and local/regional connections.
Indigenous Musicians of Pittsburgh: supported by the College of Fine Arts Fund for Research and Creativity.
Recently completed: Decolonized Futures: supported by the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. See more about the project here.
Completed: EQ and Feminized Spaces of Productivity in Toronto: supported by the Berkman Faculty Development Fund. See Chapter 6 of my book An Orchestra at My Fingertips.
