The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging

by Kristina M Jacobsen, Kristina M. Jacobsen, Kristina M Jacobsen

Book Overview

In this ethnography of Navajo (Din ) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469631865
• ISBN13: 9781469631868
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"