Keeping up with the Yazzies: the authenticity of class and geographic boundaries -- Generic Navajo: the language politics of social authenticity -- Radmilla's voice: racializing music genre -- Sounding Navajo: the politics of social citizenship and tradition -- Many voices, one nation -- Epilogue: the lights of Albuquerque?
Summary
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
