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Sonic Speculative Fiction: The Residents’ Eskimo and the Electronic (Re)construction of Ethnic Music

ABSTRACT The article focuses on the Residents’ idea of an electronic reconstruction of the Inuit music and discusses the question: is theEskimo album a speculation about the possibility of electronic ethnic music? This study also places this question in a broader context of the easy listening exotica, historical recordings of the Inuit music, the creative potential of a recording studio as well as Eskimo-orientalism. My argument is that Eskimo is a work inscribing itself into a slightly broader tendency to familiarize sonic otherness and to construct musical simulacra which supersede the sonic images of exotic cultures in popular-cultural imagination.