Pronouns: He/Him/His
Email: yamanemh@ou.edu
Office: Catlett Music Center 130
Maxwell Yamane (“yah-mah-nay”) is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include Indigenous language reclamation and music (primarily among the Kiowa Tribe in Oklahoma), powwow music and dance, and Indigenous social movements and music. His current book project, “Powwow in the Capital: The Native American Urban Community and Sonic Acts in Washington, DC,” examines how powwow singers sonically reclaim Indigeneity, assert sovereignty, and transform settler soundscapes in the nation’s capital. As part of the project, he is also co-curating a community-based archive with and for the DC Native community.
Yamane has published in academic journals such as American Comparative Studies, Ethnomusicology, Journal for Multilingualism and Multicultural Development, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Signs and Society, as well as public facing publications with First American Arts Magazine and Music Means of the American Musicological Society. He has presented his research national and internationally at the Algonquian Conference, American Anthropological Association, American Studies Association, International Council for Traditional Music and Dance, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and Society for Ethnomusicology. He sings with Southern-style powwow drum groups Ottertrail and Zotigh Singers.
Yamane is dedicated to culturally-responsible and collaborative scholarship in ways that serve the community.
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