@article{Tsatas_2022, title={Decolonized Listening in the Archive: A Study of How a Reconstruction of Archival Processes and Spaces can Contribute to Decolonizing Narratives and Listening}, volume={50}, url={https://caml.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/caml/article/view/40444}, DOI={10.25071/1708-6701.40444}, abstractNote={<p>In 2019, Stó:lō writer and scholar Dylan Robinson, and Tlingit curator and artist Candice Hopkins,<br>created Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, asking Indigenous artists and musicians to reflect on<br>how a score can be a tool for decolonization. In response, Indigenous artists contributed scores in<br>the form of beadwork, graphic notation, and more, effectively challenging traditional notions of<br>western colonial music-making and performance practices. Drawing upon the exhibit Soundings, as<br>well as Robinson’s book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (2020),<br>this paper seeks to understand how to decolonize archives in ways that impact the description,<br>preservation, and settler experience of music created by Indigenous artists. Robinson argues that by<br>increasing our awareness of and acknowledging our settler colonial listening habits, listeners can<br>engage in decolonial listening practices that can deepen our understanding of how Indigenous song<br>functions in history, medicine, and law. By centreing Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and<br>stewardship in archival settings, Indigenous musical records can be described and preserved<br>according to Indigenous frameworks. I propose the use of content management systems such as<br>Mukurtu and Local Contexts, as well as reparative archival description, to centre Indigenous<br>frameworks and Traditional Knowledge in the archive. This paper also presents three case studies to<br>demonstrate both the problematic aspects of current mainstream archival practices, as well as how<br>Mukurtu, Local Contexts, and reparative archival description can work to centre Indigenous<br>Traditional Knowledge and stewardship.</p>}, number={2}, journal={CAML Review / Revue de l’ACBM}, author={Tsatas, Sofie}, year={2022}, month={Dec.}, pages={46–67} }