At last week’s New Zealand Music Awards, Maisey Rika took home “Best Maori Album” for “Whitiora” – congrats Maisey! – and we were stoked to check out all the nominees in the category. …read more »
Tag: Language
Maisey Rika Wins Best Maori Album
VIDEO: Maisey Rika – “Tangaroa Whakamautai”
Maori Soul Singer Songwriter Maisey Rika recently released a video for her song Tangaroa Whakamauti, written and performed in her traditional language. …read more »
10 Most Influential Indigenous Albums of 2011
It was a good year for music in Indian Country with new releases coming from every corner of Turtle Island and in every genre you can imagine. LPs, EPs, singles, mixtapes, remixes – we’ve heard most of it here at RPM and while it’s difficult to say what the best albums of the year are, we’ve tallied up the records we think have been the most influential. …read more »
RPM Podcast #012: “Revitalization”
In Episode 12 of the podcast, RPM looks at the Indigenous language revitalization movement. Half of the world’s languages have disappeared in the past 500 years and today another language goes extinct almost every two weeks. Indigenous languages are the ones most at risk – which has inspired Indigenous musicians to take up the struggle to save them. …read more »
Artists Can Now Apply in Inuktitut
The Canada Council for the Arts has released a new app in order to make their funding programs more accessbile to Inuktitut-speaking artists. …read more »
TRAILER: “The Young Ancestors”
A new film, The Young Ancestors, explores the journey of young people learning their language from their elders. …read more »
DOWNLOAD: Miss Christie Lee – “Experience”
This killer track from hip-hop artist Miss Christie Lee is mostly in her Indigenous Musqueam language. …read more »
Technology and 10%: Language Revitalization
What started with a tweet and led to an 8-year plan, Dustin Rivers of the Skwxwú7mesh and Kwakwaka’wakw nations is armed to revitalize his Indigenous Squamish language. …read more »
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson Connects Through Haida Language
Haida musician, and Aboriginal-environmental lawyer, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson talks with APTN about choosing to record songs in the Haida language. …read more »
Music, Film and the Revitalization of Indigenous Languages
Two new projects have come across the RPM radar that are part of the continuing, and growing, revitalization of Indigenous languages movement. …read more »