Na'lå'la' I Taotao Tåno': Navigating the Performative Terrain of CHamoru Reclamations

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dc.contributor.advisorMoulin, Jane
dc.contributor.authorGumataotao, Andrew Mantanona
dc.contributor.departmentMusic
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-30T18:16:28Z
dc.date.available2021-09-30T18:16:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/76436
dc.subjectMusic
dc.subjectDecolonization
dc.subjectPerformativity
dc.subjectReclamation
dc.titleNa'lå'la' I Taotao Tåno': Navigating the Performative Terrain of CHamoru Reclamations
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.abstractMany scholars have examined the decolonization movement of the CHamoru people of Guam however, little attention has been placed on how CHamoru expressive culture is a significant arena embedded in such calls for social justice. This thesis investigates the contested ground and oceans of CHamoru political rights through the framework of performativity that traces various facets of Indigenous reclamations throughout Guam’s history and contemporary reality. I draw insight from Pacific scholars that interrogate notions of tradition and Indigeneity while at the same time, interweaving CHamoru voices who actively use music and dance for the purposes of maintaining, reshaping, and perpetuating CHamoru culture. Through the perspective of an Indigenous CHamoru, I employ an ethnographic memoir approach to this applied ethnomusicological study of CHamoru resistance that is diffusely articulated in a myriad of ways through history, complicated life stories, political upheaval, militarization, and responses to ongoing colonization. By privileging CHamoru agency enmeshed in intellectual rigor, this thesis aims to articulate what Danielle Brown poignantly affirms as a study written from a place of familiarity, about places and people who are crucial to my continued development. Through decolonization lived in performance, this body of work is an “ethnography of home”.
dcterms.extent161 pages
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
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local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:11121

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