Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music

dc.contributor.advisor	O'Neill, Sean
dc.contributor.author	Giacona, Christina
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Harris, Betty
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Minks, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned	2017-01-03T15:32:22Z
dc.date.available	2017-01-03T15:32:22Z
dc.date.issued	2016-12
dc.date.manuscript	2016
dc.description.abstract	This project examines the role of cultural appropriation in the creation of Native American stereotypes that are present in Western popular music in post-colonial America through the completion of an in-progress book. Similar to how minstrel blackface performances developed racial archetypes by “displaying blackness,” singing redface occurs when a non-Native person takes on the racial archetype of a Native American character through song. This research not only analyzes the use of singing redface in popular music, but also examines how these songs lead to cultural confusion, cultural misappropriation, racial antipathy, and idealized sympathy towards Native Americans and their culture.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/47118
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Native American, Linguistics, Music, Ethnomusicology	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Master of Arts	en_US
dc.title	Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Anthropology	en_US