Author: Ryan Shuvera, King’s University College, Western University

Abstract: »In 2016 Tanya Tagaq – an Inuk artist from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, known for her performances of a style of throat singing – released her fourth studio album, Retribution. Retribution’s final song is a cover of Nirvana’s “Rape Me.” Tagaq’s version speaks to certain realities faced by Indigenous women living in settler colonial North America. She urges that the song be heard in a new way. Yet, as Tagaq’s cover discloses another voice and world, it constantly calls back to Nirvana’s version. The songs come together in conversation despite the geographical, cultural, and temporal differences between the performances. This paper examines Tagaq’s performance of “Rape Me” as a world opening and unsettling force. I also analyze the exchange created through Tagaq’s performance and what it might mean to enter the exchange as a listener and potential participant in the new worlds. « (Source: IASPM Journal)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 55)
	Introduction (p. 55)
	A Note on Terminology (p. 57)
	Unpacking Nirvana (p. 57)
	Tanya Tagaq and the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada (p. 59)
	Tanya Tagaq Unsettles Nirvana (p. 62)
	Reconciliation Unsettled (p. 63)
	Endnotes (p. 65)
	References (p. 66)
		Bibliography (p. 66)
		Web Sources (p. 68)
		Discography (p. 68)
		Videography (p. 68)

Wikipedia: History of the Americas: History of Canada, History of the United States | Music: Rock music / Nirvana (band), Rape Me | Music: Inuit throat singing / Tanya Tagaq, Retribution (Tanya Tagaq album) | Sex and the law: Rape / History of rape