From 1996 to 2017, PAULA J CONLON attended and participated at Indigenous gatherings across Oklahoma, former Indian Territory, and she incorporated these first-hand experiences into her teaching, writing, and research presentations. Selected publications are listed below.
Publications
Conlon, Paula J., Nevaquaya, Edmond Tate, & Nevaquaya, Timothy Tate (2024). Doc Tate Nevaquaya: Master Comanche Artist and Flute Player. Vancouver, BC: Tellwell Talent.
Conlon, Paula J. (2021). “African Sensibility and the Muscogee (Creek) Stomp Dance Tradition.” In Rebecca L. Farinas and Julie C. Van Camp (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy (pp. 294-308). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Conlon, Paula J. (2017). “The Native American Flute Tradition in the Southern Plains, Focusing on the Kiowa and Comanche Tribes.” In Matthias Stöckli and Mark Howell (Eds.), Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas 5, 103-121. Berlin: Ekho Verlag.
Conlon, Paula (2016). “From Powwow to Stomp Dance: Parallel Dance Traditions in Oklahoma.” In Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199754281-e-013.
Conlon, Paula J. (2015). “Nevaquaya, Joyce Lee.” Grove Music Online. Retrieved from http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-4002286161
Conlon, Paula J. (2015). “Powwow Times Three: Intertribal Powwow Music from Three Perspectives.” Great Plains Quarterly 35(1), 103-111. University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/570722/pdf
Conlon, Paula (2014). “Courtship Rituals and the Native American Flute.” In Frank Kouwenhoven & James Kippen (Eds.), Music, Dance and the Art of Seduction (pp. 103-114). University of Chicago Press.
Conlon, Paula (2014). “Bending or breaking the Native American flute tradition?” In Caroline Bithell & Juniper Hill (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Revival. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199765034.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199765034-e-010
Conlon, Paula. (2013). “Muscogee (Creek Nation) Stomp Dance.” In Timothy Archambault, Elaine Keillor, & John M. H. Kelly, Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
Conlon, Paula & McKenzie-Jones, Paul (2013). “Red Power: American Indian Activism through Powwow Music and Dance.” In Eunice Rojas & Lindsay Michie (Eds.), Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism, Vol. 1: Activism in the United States (pp. 21-46). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC/CLIO.
Conlon, Paula (2012). “The Native American Flute: Convergence and Collaboration as Exemplified by R. Carlos Nakai.” In Max Peter Baumann (Ed.), – the world of music – Readings in Ethnomusicology (pp. 118-133). Berlin: VWB – Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.
Conlon, Paula J. (2012). “American Indian Dance Theatre.” Grove Music Online. Retrieved from http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/search?q=American+Indian+Dance+Theater&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true
Conlon, Paula (2009). “Dance, American Indian.” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=DA008
Conlon, Paula (2009). “Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs” In Tara Browner (Ed.), Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America (pp. 7-20). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Conlon, Paula (2009). “Nevaquaya, Joyce Lee.” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=NE004
Conlon, Paula (2007). “Comanche Flute Music Played by Doc Tate Nevaquaya, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 50403.” Journal of American Folklore 120(475), 77-79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4137866
Conlon, Paula (2007). “Diaspora in Indian Territory: Stomp Dancing in Oklahoma.” In Anna Hoefnagels & Gordon E. Smith (Eds.), Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present (pp. 212-220). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Conlon, Paula (2007). “Doc Tate Nevaquaya – Master Comanche Flute Player.” Flute Focus 12, 4-5.
Conlon, Paula (2006). “The Pros and Cons of Teaching World Music as a General Education Course.” College Music Society Symposium, 10. Retrieved from https://symposium.music.org/index.php/component/k2/item/3441-the-pros-and-cons-of-teaching-world-music-as-a-general-education-course?highlight=WyJjb25sb24iLCJjb25sb24ncyJd
Conlon, Paula (2004). “Buffy Sainte-Marie.” In David J. Wishart (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska: Lincoln Press.
Barry, Nancy H., & Conlon, Paula (2003). “Powwow in the Classroom.” Music Educators Journal 90(2), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.2307/3399930