This highly theoretical work of ethnomusicology is a reclamation of Indigenous ceremonial and artistic practice arguing that the inclusion and appropriation of Indigenous performers in classical music traditions only enriches the settler nation-state. Robinson gives shape to Western musical and aesthetic practices as well as to Indigenous listening practices in order to eschew traditional (Western) forms of musical analysis. Instead, the work argues that new modes of listening and studying reception, emerging out of critical Indigenous studies, are essential to understanding Indigenous musical expression in ways that do not reify the power of the settler state.

Introduction. Writing Indigenous Space -- Hungry Listening -- Event Score for Guest Listening I -- Writing about Musical Intersubjectivity -- xwélalà:m, Raven Chacon's Report -- Contemporary Encounters Between Indigenous and Early Music -- Event Score for Return -- Ethnographic Redress, Compositional Responsibility -- Event Score for Responsibility : "qimmit katajjaq / sqwélqwel tl'sqwmá:y" -- Feeling Reconciliation -- Event Score to Act.