Indigenous Audibilities

Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-753248-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Minks, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Nichtwestliche Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

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.