Putting A Song On Top Of It
Subtitle: Expression And Identity On The San Carlos Apache Reservation
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780816523795
Subjects: Social Science; Songs and music; Ethnomusicology; Country music; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Social life and customs; San Carlos Indian Reservation; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Arizona; Anthropology - Cultural; Apache Indians
Description: "As in many Native American communities, people on the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona have for centuries been exposed to contradictory pressures. Using insights gained from both linguistic and musical practices in the community - as well as from his own experience playing in an Apache country band - David Samuels explores the complex expressive lives of these people to offer new ways of thinking about cultural identity. Samuels analyzes how people on the reservation make productive use of popular culture forms to create and transform contemporary expressions of Apache cultural identity."--Jacket.