Bridget Haines

Fall 2020
Course Cluster Project

Course 1:

MUS_CLAS_211: Western Art Music II: Western Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First
Centuries, Fall 2018, Professor Marta Robertson

Course 2:

REL_226: Native American Religious Traditions, Fall 2020, Professor David Walsh

Title:

Resistance Through Indigenous Music

Abstract:

Indigenous North American music has only begun to be studied within the last one hundred years
with the bulk of that research focusing on the traditional styles of music, often focusing on the
sacred genres. This research is centered in the secular and popular genres of indigenous music and
artists who have focused they’re music on the resistance movements of their times. The research
explores two main eras of indigenous resistance: The Red Power Era and the Idle No More
Movement/Modern Resistance. Artists studied are; Peter La Farge, Buffy Sainte Marie, Floyd “Red
Crow” Westermann, the band Redbone, the band XIT, John Trudell, Atlas Underground, Tanya
Tagaq, and A Tribe Called Red.

Link to Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndp7kIovCY&feature=youtu.be

I affirm that I have upheld the highest principles of Honesty and Integrity and have not witnessed a
violation of the Honor Code in my academic work. – Bridget S. Haines
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