Sounding Decolonial Futures: Decentering Ethnomusicology's Colonialist Legacies

Zeisberg 11 “My Bark Canoe"

The source for this arrangement is Frederick Russell Burton's arrangement titled "My Bark Canoe." It is likely Zeisberg encountered it in Burton's American Primitive Music, with Especial Attention to the Songs of the Objiways, where Burton recounts how he came to arrange it and provides two different arrangements (1909: I., 152-153, 178-179, 203 II., 1, 54). Zeisberg borrows the English-language text and the harmony. 

This song is well-known in piano arrangements of Indigenous materials. Both versions of the transcriptions are included in Victoria Lindsay Levine's 2002 volume called Writing American Indian Music. She identifies the tune as an Ojibwa love song from southern Ontario, Canada (2002:61-63). . Michael Pisani also writes about Burton's settings of this text in Imagining Native America in Music (2005: 246-248).  
 

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