Indigenous Audibilities
Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas
Amanda Minks(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 3. November 2023
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-19-753248-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the middle of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folklore in the Americas. Indigenous Audibilities follows the social relations that created these collections in four interconnected case studies linking the U.S., Mexico, Nicaragua, and Chile. Indigenous collections were embedded in political projects that negotiated issues of cultural diplomacy, national canons, and heritage. The case studies recuperate the traces of marginalized voices in archives, paying special attention to women and Indigenous people. Despite the dominant agendas of national and international institutions, the diverse actors and the multi-directional influences often led to unexpected outcomes.
Author Amanda Minks brings together vivid storytelling and theories of collection, voice, and recording to challenge the transparency of archives as a historical source. The book presents a social-historical method of listening, reading, and thinking beyond the referentiality of archived texts, and in the process uncovers neglected genealogies of cultural music research in the Americas.
Author Amanda Minks brings together vivid storytelling and theories of collection, voice, and recording to challenge the transparency of archives as a historical source. The book presents a social-historical method of listening, reading, and thinking beyond the referentiality of archived texts, and in the process uncovers neglected genealogies of cultural music research in the Americas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 photos
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-753248-5 (9780197532485)
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Person
Amanda Minks is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology in the Honors College of the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Voices of Play: Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
Author
Associate Professor of Anthropology and EthnomusicologyAssociate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Honors College, University of Oklahoma
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
A Note on Terminology and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Between the Ear and the Letter: Oral History and U.S. Borderlands
2. Radio, Recording, and Inter-American Indigenismo in Mexico
3. Folklore, Region, and Revolution in Nicaragua
4. Indigenous Collections and Integrative Arts in Chile
Epilogue
References
Index
List of Figures
A Note on Terminology and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Between the Ear and the Letter: Oral History and U.S. Borderlands
2. Radio, Recording, and Inter-American Indigenismo in Mexico
3. Folklore, Region, and Revolution in Nicaragua
4. Indigenous Collections and Integrative Arts in Chile
Epilogue
References
Index