Makes Me Feel Glad That I'm Not Dead: Jim Pepper and Music of the Native American Church
This article identifies Jim Pepper's 1971 jazz hit Witchi Tai To as a contact zone in which cultures (Native and non-Native) collide. In the song, Native powwow culture and Native identities are reclaimed and reinterpreted within a jazz idiom. While Native supratribal identities are celebrate...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2018]
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| In: |
Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pepper, Jim 1941-1992
/ Native American Church
/ Church music
/ Peyote cult
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| RelBib Classification: | BB Indigenous religions CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBQ North America KDG Free church |
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Native American religion
B Jazz B Native American Church B Music B Peyote B contact zone B Opacity B Jim Pepper |
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| Summary: | This article identifies Jim Pepper's 1971 jazz hit Witchi Tai To as a contact zone in which cultures (Native and non-Native) collide. In the song, Native powwow culture and Native identities are reclaimed and reinterpreted within a jazz idiom. While Native supratribal identities are celebrated within this popular culture artefact, the song retains an opacity that resists absorption and cooptation by non-Natives. Witchi Tai To is a song of Native religious reorientation within a context of modernity, and its legacy reverberates in at least two genres of contemporary Native popular music: Native American Church songs and Native American electronic dance music. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2017-0003 |