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Listening for Sovereignty, Solidarity, and Resistance

This panel, Listening for Sovereignty, Solidarity, and Resistance in Native Hawaiian, Asian American, and Indigenous musicking, comprises three papers on music—on native Hawaiian activist and musician George Helm, Japanese American hip hop artist Shing02, and the Asian American composer and multi-instrumentalist treya lam and the Indigenous bassist/singer/composer Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation). Listening for sovereignty, solidarity, and resistance across a range of twentieth-century and twenty-first century musicking, we explore political and music engagements in relation to (1) Helm’s articulation of his political idea of aloha ‘āina (love of the land) through his musicking; (2) collaborative networks cultivated by Shing02 in Honolulu that affirm the creative and political significance of community-based production; and (3) sonic expressions of multivocality, solidarity, and freedom in the musics of treya lam and Mali Obomsawin.

Ellie Hisama

University of Toronto

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