Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams romance Because if he can live

Because if he can live up to Jaxon's dreams

and the devastating cycle of loss of Indigenous land

Irish people built a statue to remember their connection to the Choctaw Nation--twenty-foot high feathers in the shape of a bowl

and Minnesota

revealing an America few ever see

Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams romance Because if he can liveWhat does sovereignty sound like? Sonic Sovereignty considers how contemporary Indigenous musicians champion self determination through musical expression in Canada and the United States. The framework of "sonic sovereignty" connects self definition, collective determination, and Indigenous land rematriation to the immediate and long lasting effects of expressive culture. Liz Przybylski covers online and offline media spaces, following musicians and