PUBLIC TALKS

“Sounding Resurgence: Indigenous Music and the Next Wave” - Kenneth H. Peacock Lecturer - University of Toronto, Faculty of Music | 2020 

The rise of Indigenous music is an undeniable force in contemporary cultural production across Turtle Island. Here in so-called ‘Canada’, the sounds and songs being made by Indigenous artists have moved from the margins of popular music to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the sonic and political landscapes of both settler and Indigenous imaginaries. This rise to prominence, however, marks not only a resurgent turn to centring Indigenous voices and visibility, but also the continuation of longstanding Indigenous movements for decolonization and justice. Eight years on from the ‘round dance revolution’ known as Idle No More, in a moment where reconciliation has been declared “dead”, “Land Back” has become a rallying cry, and ongoing national protests and blockades have sprung up across the country in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation, settler Canada’s declared commitments to harmonious coexistence and Indigenous justice have been drawn deeply into question. Indigenous music moves through this maelstrom with the disruptive force of a wave, but what emergent possibilities are generated by this movement? How might Indigenous songs open enclosures of political practice and thereby transform their terrain into what Fred Moten terms “a revolution of the surround”?

“Sonic Survival: How Music Shapes Indigenous Futures” - 5x15 - Indian Summer Festival - Vancouver | 2018

Part of the 2018 Indian Summer Festival’s acclaimed 5x15 speaker series, Jarrett speaks about Indigenous music, resurgence, and futurisms.

Jarrett also curated an evening of performances that followed, entitled Confluence, featuring Anishinaabe writer, musician and academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and her group with cellist Cris Derksen, sibling and singer-songwriter Ansley Simpson and Nick Ferrio; Caribbean-American poet Aja Monet; Too Attached, featuring Vivek Shraya and Shamik Bilgi; and Jhalaak, the latest project from Juno Award-winning producer/composer Adham Shaikh, composer Ruby Singh, and members of Sufi group Rahasthan Josh.

“Insurgent & Resurgent Media: Alanis Obomsawin & Jarrett Martineau” - Beaverbrook Annual Lecture - McGill University | Montreal | 2018 

Renowned Indigenous documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and media producer Jarrett Martineau participate in an intergenerational dialogue on Indigenous media and cultural production for the 2018 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture, presented by Media @ McGill. 

"Creating Community: Jesse Wente in Conversation with Jarrett Martineau"  - OMDC Digital Dialogue Conference - Toronto | 2017 

Jesse Wente, Broadcaster and Curator in conversation with Jarrett Martineau, Creative Producer, Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) discuss Indigenous music and media, creative community, and the future of Indigenous storytelling.

"Politics of Frequency: Art, Sound, Spectacle and Standing Rock"  - #NODAPL: A Teach-In for Standing Rock - The New School | New York, NY | 2016 

Part of a teach-in in support of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate’s (The Great Sioux Nation) resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

"Indigenous Media, Remix, and Revolution" - Indigenous New Media Symposium | The New School | New York, NY | 2014

The Indigenous New Media Symposium brings together Native American and First Nations media makers and creative activists to discuss how new media platforms are being used in the Indigenous community to educate, organize, entertain, and advocate.

INTERVIEWS

• "Canadian First Nations activist Jarrett Martineau is disrupting the way we think about Native music" - i-D

• "Interview with RPM Records founder Jarrett Martineau" | Q on CBC Radio

• "Why Gord Downie's 'beautiful' work can't stand alone" | Q on CBC Radio

• "Jarrett Martineau wants to highlight Indigenous musicians with a new record label" | The Candy Palmater Show on CBC Radio

• "Raising new voices: Young artists move Indigenous conversations forward" | Megaphone Magazine

• "Indigenous Struggles, Representation and Decolonization" | Free City Radio

• "Decolonizing Cooperative Economics" | Interview with Stefan Christoff | Canadian Dimension | Audio Version: here

• On Indigenous Nationhood - with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson | The Vibe Collective

TV & RADIO HOSTING

• Reclaimed - CBC Radio 1, CBC Music, and Sirius XM

• ZeD Real - CBC Television

• Brave New Waves - CBC Radio 2

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2016.    "Imagining an Indigenous Future". Indigenous Education Week, University of Toronto. February 2016.

2015.    “Encoded Flows: Indigenous Hip-Hop, Cypher Theory and Anticolonial Resistance”. Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Toronto, May 2015.

2015.    “Life/Blood: Toward the Present Future” with Luam Kidane. Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Toronto, May 2015.

2014.    "Bass, Beats, and The Breaks of Dawn: Building Revolutionary Indigenous Movements for Decolonization through Music, Art and Digital Media." Left Forum,
             New York City, May 2014.

2014.    “The Masked Dance of Empire: Revisioning Decolonization, Indigenous Subjectivity, and Resistance”. International Studies Association Conference, Toronto,
             March 2014.

2014.    “Indigenous Arts and Remix”. Unsettlement and Decolonization: New Directions Conference. Columbia University, New York City, February 2014.

2013.    “Idle No More and Decolonizing Knowledges”. International Symposium on Knowledge Democracy, University of Victoria, March 2013.

2013.    “#IdleNoMore: Mobilizing Decolonial Consciousness and Indigenous Resurgence”. Research Symposium, Linnaeus University Centre: Concurrences in
             Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. March 2013.