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Broadcasting Live from Unceded Coast Salish Territory: Aboriginal Community Radio, Unsettling Vancouver

Bissler, Margaret Helen

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2014, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
This thesis examines moments of spatial, historical, and identity transformation through the performance of aboriginal community radio production in contemporary Vancouver, BC. It highlights points at which space is marked as indigenous and colonial through physical movement and through discourse. Beginning with a trip to record a public demonstration for later broadcast, this thesis follows the event in a public performance to question and unpack spatial, sonic, and historical references made by participants. The protest calls for present action while drawing upon past experiences of indigenous peoples locally and nationwide that affect the lived present and foreseeable future. This thesis also moves to position aboriginal community radio practice in a particular place and time, locating the discussion in unceded indigenous territory within the governmental forces of Canadian regulation at a single radio station. Vancouver Co-op Radio, to provide a more coherent microcosm of Vancouver's indigenous community radio scene. CFRO is located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and its shows, mostly aired live from the studio, broadcast a marginalized voices. The content of its overtly indigenous shows includes aboriginal language learning and revival, aboriginal political issues or “talk radio,” “NDN” (pronounced “Indian”) pop culture/music, and aboriginal music more broadly writ. It examines ways in which “aboriginal” and “community” are negotiated by practitioners and how those conversations inform the broadcast “aboriginal” “community” radio programs. The thesis returns to the studio with recordings from the initial public demonstration to experience a live performance of a single radio show. This analysis examines choices of internal and external media as an emergent performance, probing how choices of documentary recordings and live interviews, for instance, affect the aboriginal community radio subjectivity which is broadcast live out to local Vancouver audiences. Through close listening and attention to moments of shift rather than stasis, this thesis demonstrates the fluid assemblage of peoples, choices, media, spaces, and times emerges to take up the form of aboriginal community radio.
Ryan Skinner (Advisor)
Christine Ballengee-Morris (Committee Member)
Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Committee Member)
100 p.

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  • Bissler, M. H. (2014). Broadcasting Live from Unceded Coast Salish Territory: Aboriginal Community Radio, Unsettling Vancouver [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397834042

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bissler, Margaret. Broadcasting Live from Unceded Coast Salish Territory: Aboriginal Community Radio, Unsettling Vancouver . 2014. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397834042.

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  • Bissler, Margaret. "Broadcasting Live from Unceded Coast Salish Territory: Aboriginal Community Radio, Unsettling Vancouver ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397834042

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)