Documenting Indigenous Knowledge(s): An Ethnomusicologists Perspective with Maria Williams

Event

When: Nov 21, 2024 - 02:00pm - Nov 21, 2024 - 03:00pm

Where: MVH Common Room

Maria Williams (Tlingit) is an ethnomusicologist. Williams is the current Alaska Native Studies Program Chair and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Music at UAA and teaches an Alaska Native Music course, and a World Music course. She produced the documentary A Beautiful Life, chronicling the 750-mile journey of Athabascan Elder Daisy Demientieff. A trailblazer in Alaska Native Studies, she edited The Alaska Native Reader (2009) with Duke University Press.