The Sound of Navajo Country - Music, Language, and Dine Belonging (Paperback)

In this ethnography of Navajo (Dine) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music's connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of music both the politics of difference and many internal distinctions Dine make among themselves and their fellow Navajo citizens. As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Indigeneities
Release date:	March 2017
Authors:	Kristina M Jacobsen
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-3186-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > History > American history > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western Promotions
LSN:	1-4696-3186-5
Barcode:	9781469631868

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