Liz Przybylski

• University of California, Riverside

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit music and dance practices have enacted Indigenous survivance since colonization began. Contemporary Indigenous performers within and beyond present-day Canadian borders continue this performative intervention through popular music, building what I call sonic sovereignty. In response to music industry barriers, Indige...

“Unreserved”. CBC Radio One. 2015–2019. Hosted by Rosanna Deerchild. In English with additional content in several Indigenous languages. URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved - Volume 51 - LIZ PRZYBYLSKI

Education research often examines popular music as a tool for achieving classroom learning outcomes. Approaching pedagogical uses of music through applied ethnomusicology reveals even more useful conclusions about the social context and pedagogical applications of bilingual popular music. Research with musicians and teachers in Minnesota and Manito...

The production of Indigenous hip hop on both sides of the 49th parallel reveals a cultural complexity far beyond a stereotypical melting pot to the south and mosaic to the north. This article demonstrates multiple similarities in Canadian and USAmerican Indigenous hip hop through a parallel analysis of recent music videos by Canadian Cree and Sault...

This article provides a contextualized explanation of an emerging strategy for popular music teaching and learning in higher education that the authors term Improvisatory Integrative Learning. This strategy coalesces around four themes from a Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-With-Others ethos: autonomy, play, peer learning, and peer teaching. To explicate...

This article provides a contextualized explanation of an emerging strategy for popular music teaching and learning in higher education that the authors term Improvisatory Integrative Learning. This strategy coalesces around four themes from a Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-With-Others ethos: autonomy, play, peer learning, and peer teaching. To explicate...