This essay uses analytical sketches of Indigenous DJ collective A Tribe Called Red's "How I Feel" as a starting point for critiquing the white colonial Eurocentric norms of music analysis as currently practiced in the discipline of music theory. I expand on previous calls for greater diversity and inclusion with inthe field by exposing colonial and Eurocentric analytical strategies. I then propose some possibilities for decolonizing and Indigenizing music analysis that reflect individuals' differing capacities for growth and change while also challenging music analysts to move beyond tokenistic gestures.
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Attas, R. (2022). The Many Paths of Decolonization: Exploring Colonizing and Decolonizing Analyses of a Tribe Called Red’s “How I Feel.” Music Theory Online, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.2.11
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