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Panther Mountain Sound: 20250219 (Audio)
Honoring the central importance of music and sound in decolonization practices. Amplifying Indigenous worldviews, knowledge systems, and sound practices. Restoring the central role of music and sound in these worldviews, with honor, respect, and attention to cultural protocols. Reconnecting culture to Mother Earth through sound as a requirement for positive futures. Through music, song, and story, embodied wisdom is shared and activated to maintain the fluidity of a functional, balanced, and regenerative society. Music has always played a central role, through ceremony and personal practice, in sharing wisdom and knowledge. It is through sound that humans and nonhumans are able to communicate with each other across thresholds. Indigenous worldviews have long had a sophisticated understanding of this important reality. Music continues to be central to cultural restoration, reactivation, and resilience. The show honors the necessity to centralize music and sound in decolonizing and indigenizing culture. It also amplifies Indigenous music traditions to bring attention to their right to a sustainable future in the face of continued violence and oppression. We will explore the intersection of acoustic ecology, musical ethnography, soundscape studies, and restorative listening practices from the perspective of Indigenous musical TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge).
Matthew O’Neill is a musical artist and performer based in the Catskill mountains. He has maintained a lifelong commitment to Indigenous ways of knowing and participation through sound. His music-making and listening practices reflect this. O'Neill has an academic background in wisdom traditions, music, sound studies, ethnography, cultural anthropology, and Turtle Island history. His academic work is grounded in activism. O'Neill runs an Indigenous-based music label called Underwater Panther Coalition which focuses on decolonizing music and listening modalities while directly supporting native artists and their communities.
www.matthew-oneill.com
www.underwaterpanthercoalition.com
Playlist:
- Pasqakuymi / Group of women of Socos performing harawi for Carnival celebration
- Chimaycha / Group of men performing chimaycha with charangos and guitars
- Chunchos / Chunchos of Luricocha dancing and playing antaras
- Harawi / Group of elderly women performing harawi before the plowing of the communal field
- Qaqupa / Huayno with harp and violin performed as purification after fiesta
- Vaca y vaca, toro y toro / Group celebrating the marking of the Huamaní family's cattle
- Saru, Saruy / Group of women singing harawi to awaken ground corn in preparation of chicha de jora beverage
- Qachuy de Reempujo (1 of 2): Ayllu Qullana / Group of women from the ayllu Qullana inciting their men to participate in the reempujo
- Tijeras: Qawachan section / Scissors Dancers accompanied by harp, violin, and scissors
- Tijeras: Pacha tinka / Scissors Dancers accompanied by harp, violin, and scissors
- Ayacuchana / Conjunto Lira Folklorica Del Peru
- Chunchu / Q'ero man
- Love song / Louisa Sera Chompi and Domingo Chompi
- Conch shell trumpets / Q'eros authorities
- Señor Alcalde / Group of women from Iscap
- Arranque de Cóndor / Musicians in the village of Carhua
- Responso: Posa / Alberto Nieto and Hugo Saavedra
- Apu Yaya Jesucristo / Miguel Guami
- Santísima Cruz / Group from Chavín
- Cosecha de Trigo / Félix Palma Ramírez
- Yawar, Yawar / Pedro Espinoza
- Capitán de Condor / Group from Marca
- Inca-Capitán / Los Anes de Chiquian
- Señor Alcalde / Group of women from Iscap
- Palla de Huaylas / Dionisio Morales with woman and three girls of Huaylas