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The Innu are among the First Nations of Canada. They have maintained a vibrant folk music culture, especially involving dance and percussion-based music. Philip Mackenzie is an especially important modern musician, known for being the creator a kind of singer-songwriter tradition using the Innu language.
The music video for "Higher" was directed by Mick Soiza and released on 25 March 2021. [2] At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, it was nominated for Best Video. [3] "Higher" was the fourth most played first nations song on Australian radio in 2021. [4] At the APRA Music Awards of 2022, the song won Most Performed R&B / Soul Work. [5]
The album's cultural context is also reflected in its cover art, which recreates a period scene of an anthropologist recording the songs; on the front cover, Dutcher is depicted sitting in the position of the singer being recorded, while on the back cover he is depicted sitting in the position of the anthropologist.
Indigenous music of Canada encompasses a wide variety of musical genres created by Aboriginal Canadians. [1] Before European settlers came to what is now Canada, the region was occupied by many First Nations, including the West Coast Salish and Haida, the centrally located Iroquois, Blackfoot and Huron, the Dene to the North, and the Innu and Mi'kmaq in the East and the Cree in the North.
FirstVoices.com was launched in 2003, [3] and allows language teams from Indigenous communities to create secure, interactive web sites to document and promote their languages by uploading alphabets, audio recordings, words, phrases, songs and stories. The languages sites include kid-friendly views of the content, and games based on the ...
Dene music is music composed by Northern Athabaskan-speaking First Nations peoples - the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tlicho (Dogrib), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), and Sahtu. The term generally refers to traditional musical compositions and dances.
Motewolonuwok is the second full-length studio album by Jeremy Dutcher, released on Secret City Records in 2023. [1]Unlike his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, which was sung entirely in the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language, Motewolonuwok features songs in both Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and English. [2]
Performance of Aboriginal song and dance in the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.. Indigenous music of Australia comprises the music of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, intersecting with their cultural and ceremonial observances, through the millennia of their individual and collective histories to the present day.