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Communication technologies have long been tools for nation building and imperial expansion. Yet over the past few decades digital media have also become a creative and political resource for indigenous peoples, nurturing cultural revival, assisting activism, and complicating earlier hegemonic power structures. This book is about indigenous musical performance in a digital age, investigating the dynamics of musical revitalization, representation, repatriation, and education. It explores how digital media -- whether on CD, VCD, the Internet, mobile technology, or in the studio -- have become part of the fabric of, and in turn transformed, indigenous cultural expression in diverse global contexts. Bringing together the work of scholars and musicians across five continents, the volume addresses timely issues of transnationalism and sovereignty; production and consumption; archives and transmission; subjectivity and ownership; and virtuality and the post-human. Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media is essential reading for scholars working in ethnomusicology, indigeneity, and media studies while also providing a useful resource for indigenous musicians and activists. Offering new perspectives on indigenous music and extending debates on digital culture, the volume points to how digital media shapes what it means to be indigenous in the twenty-first century. Thomas R. Hilder is Postdoctoral Fellow in Musicology at the University of Bergen. Henry Stobart is Reader in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Shzr Ee Tan is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.
