Sounding Native Christianities

Harvard HDS

This course takes sound as a site to explore the history of Native American encounters with Christianity, the legacies of those encounters, and the lived practices of Native communities, past and present. Sound was one arena in which Native communities actively negotiated Christianity - composing and adapting hymns in Native languages, reworking inherited musical forms to new settler and Christian contexts, and creating distinctive new musical traditions. This course asks about the…