For Zitkála-Šá

Raven Chacon

• Title

  For Zitkála-Šá

• Date 2022
• ISBN 9781953441096
• Publisher Los Angeles, CA; New Documents; Toronto, Canada; Art Metropole
• Description 128 p.; 13.25 in; b/w ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room
• Summary

  For Zitkála-Šá collects a series of scores by artist and composer Raven Chacon. Paying tribute to Yankton Dakota writer, musician, and activist Zitkála-Šá (b.1876), this publication is structured through a series of scores for thirteen contemporary female Indigenous performing artists: Laura Ortman, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Suzanne Kite, Barbara Croall, Jacqueline Wilson, Autumn Chacon, Heidi Senungetuk, Ange Loft, Joy Harjo, Carmina Escobar, Olivia Shortt, Candice Hopkins, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. The book is supplemented by texts by each artist and a contextualizing essay by Chacon. (New Documents)

• Tags Music, Score, Indigenous