{"id":1878,"date":"2022-05-01T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2022-05-24T21:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:26:43","slug":"listening-to-the-fur-trade-by-daniel-laxer-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the Fur Trade by Daniel Laxer Published"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/7b30aa2e-c5c2-8b7b-0ece-0f760dcd2dac.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/7b30aa2e-c5c2-8b7b-0ece-0f760dcd2dac.png 512w, https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/7b30aa2e-c5c2-8b7b-0ece-0f760dcd2dac-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Carolyn Podruchny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Robert Laxer grew up in Edmonton and graduated from the University of Alberta, attending York University for his M.A. and the University of Toronto for his Ph.D. in history. He works as a researcher in the Negotiations and Reconciliation Division of Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Indigenous Affairs.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><em>Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760-1840<\/em>&nbsp;focuses for the first time on how the fur trade sounded. Topics include firearms as sound-making devices, musical encounters, military instruments and \u201cturned\u201d drums, dances and diplomacy, soundways from Montreal to the Great Lakes, voyageur paddling songs,&nbsp;<em>orchansons d\u2019aviron<\/em>, Indigenous hunting and healing songs as encountered by fur traders, and the development of instrumental dance music at the trading posts that centred around the fiddle.&nbsp;<em>Listening to the Fur Trade<\/em>&nbsp;traces the diverse soundways and musical exchanges that developed between English and French, master and servant, and Indigenous peoples and fur traders.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/listening-to-the-fur-trade-products-9780228008590.php\">Learn More Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carolyn Podruchny Daniel Robert Laxer grew up in Edmonton and graduated from the University of Alberta, attending York University for his M.A. and the University of Toronto for his Ph.D. in history. He works as a researcher in the Negotiations and Reconciliation Division of Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Indigenous Affairs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1878\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-newsletter-stories","tag-daniel-laxer","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}