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the world of music (new series)
In-person interactions were drastically altered in the unincorporated territory island of Guåhan ... more In-person interactions were drastically altered in the unincorporated territory island of Guåhan (Guam) and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This article seeks to investigate how lålai (CHamoru chant) and music making are resurgent forms of sound-based cultural practices that can be understood as “narrative medicine.” The latter has the potential to be a model for musical sensemaking, whereby Indigenous storytelling maintains connections among kin and heals from colonial trauma. Critically reflecting on a community grant film project entitled, “Tåhdong Marianas: Storytelling Across the Marianas,” I explore how a young group of Indigenous CHamorus use the medium of film to adapt to the situation of COVID-19 while calling into question conventional parameters of fieldwork. I analyze how the privileging of work done by and for Indigenous people actively foregrounds the sonic potential of narrative medicine by focusing ...
Language documentation and description of CHamor
Many scholars have examined the decolonization movement of the CHamoru people of Guam however, li... more Many scholars have examined the decolonization movement of the CHamoru people of Guam however, little attention has been placed on how CHamoru expressive culture is a significant arena embedded in such calls for social justice. This thesis investigates the contested ground and oceans of CHamoru political rights through the framework of performativity that traces various facets of Indigenous reclamations throughout Guam’s history and contemporary reality. I draw insight from Pacific scholars that interrogate notions of tradition and Indigeneity while at the same time, interweaving CHamoru voices who actively use music and dance for the purposes of maintaining, reshaping, and perpetuating CHamoru culture. Through the perspective of an Indigenous CHamoru, I employ an ethnographic memoir approach to this applied ethnomusicological study of CHamoru resistance that is diffusely articulated in a myriad of ways through history, complicated life stories, political upheaval, militarization, a...
the world of music (new series)
In-person interactions were drastically altered in the unincorporated territory island of Guåhan ... more In-person interactions were drastically altered in the unincorporated territory island of Guåhan (Guam) and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This article seeks to investigate how lålai (CHamoru chant) and music making are resurgent forms of sound-based cultural practices that can be understood as “narrative medicine.” The latter has the potential to be a model for musical sensemaking, whereby Indigenous storytelling maintains connections among kin and heals from colonial trauma. Critically reflecting on a community grant film project entitled, “Tåhdong Marianas: Storytelling Across the Marianas,” I explore how a young group of Indigenous CHamorus use the medium of film to adapt to the situation of COVID-19 while calling into question conventional parameters of fieldwork. I analyze how the privileging of work done by and for Indigenous people actively foregrounds the sonic potential of narrative medicine by focusing ...
Language documentation and description of CHamor
Many scholars have examined the decolonization movement of the CHamoru people of Guam however, li... more Many scholars have examined the decolonization movement of the CHamoru people of Guam however, little attention has been placed on how CHamoru expressive culture is a significant arena embedded in such calls for social justice. This thesis investigates the contested ground and oceans of CHamoru political rights through the framework of performativity that traces various facets of Indigenous reclamations throughout Guam’s history and contemporary reality. I draw insight from Pacific scholars that interrogate notions of tradition and Indigeneity while at the same time, interweaving CHamoru voices who actively use music and dance for the purposes of maintaining, reshaping, and perpetuating CHamoru culture. Through the perspective of an Indigenous CHamoru, I employ an ethnographic memoir approach to this applied ethnomusicological study of CHamoru resistance that is diffusely articulated in a myriad of ways through history, complicated life stories, political upheaval, militarization, a...