Re-placing Performance: A case study of the Yukon music scene in the Canadian north

Abstract

This article examines issues of performance in relation to Jerry Alfred and the Medicine Beat, a band led by the Northern Tutchone (indigenous) singer-songwriter, Jerry Alfred from Canada's Yukon Territory, adjacent to Alaska. Like many Yukon musical ensembles, this is an eclectic combination of individuals trained in First Nations traditional, classical, jazz, cabaret, country and rock music. The author demonstrates that performance is best understood, not in and of itself, but in the in-betweens of many events, each re-placed by the next. Three types of 'in-betweenness will be considered: the way in which this group is viewed by its members vis-à-vis other groups in which they play, the way in which different performance sites and audiences mediate performance, and the way in which their commodified performances (3 CDs to date) and live enactments inform one another.

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