Symposium Report by Thomas Hilder

The symposium Music, Indigeneity & Digital Media took place from 15th to 16th April 2010 at the Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). Organised by Thomas Hilder, Shzr Ee Tan and Henry Stobart, the event brought together leading scholars from five continents engaged in research on music and the role of digital media in negotiating and transforming the politics of indigeneity in a range of contexts around the world. Consisting of paper presentations, a roundtable discussion and a film showing, the symposium set out to explore the issues of representation and revival, production and consumption, archives and outreach, place and environment, authorship and ownership, through indigenous musical performance. The event was supported with generous funding from Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging (European Research Council) and the Arts Faculty of Royal Holloway.