In the middle decades 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 United States, 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 female researchers and Indigenous collaborators. Despite the dominant agendas of national and international institutions, the diverse actors and the multidirectional influences often created unexpected outcomes. The book brings together theories of collection, voice, media, writing, and recording to challenge the transparency of archives as a historical source. Indigenous Audibilities 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.
While indigenous languages have become prominent in global political and educational discourses, limited attention has been given to indigenous children's everyday communication.Voices of Playis a ...study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, part of a multi-ethnic autonomous region on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
Corn Island is historically home to Afro-Caribbean Creole people, but increasing numbers of Miskitu people began moving there from the mainland during the Contra War, and many Spanish-speaking mestizos from western Nicaragua have also settled there. Miskitu kids on Corn Island often gain some competence speaking Miskitu, Spanish, and Kriol English. As the children of migrants and the first generation of their families to grow up with television, they develop creative forms of expression that combine languages and genres, shaping intercultural senses of belonging.
Voices of Playis the first ethnography to focus on the interaction between music and language in children's discourse. Minks skillfully weaves together Latin American, North American, and European theories of culture and communication, creating a transdisciplinary dialogue that moves across intellectual geographies. Her analysis shows how music and language involve a wide range of communicative resources that create new forms of belonging and enable dialogue across differences. Miskitu children's voices reveal the intertwining of speech and song, the emergence of "self" and "other," and the centrality of aesthetics to social struggle.
From the time of the founding of the Inter-American Indian Institute, its directors used music and media as tools for the documentation and preservation of indigenous cultures, in addition to the ...promotion of the Institute in the public arena. This article focuses on the role of Henrietta Yurchenco, a U.S. ethnomusicologist, in III recording projects and radio production beginning in 1942. The sociable personality of Yurchenco enabled her to cross cultural borders and maintain long-term friendships in some of the communities where she worked. However, the III developed a model of the archive as a source of indigenous authenticity that displaced direct interaction with indigenous communities, especially in relation to their musical representation in radio programs. The use of the arts in the III also prefigured the regimes of cultural heritage in UNESCO. The article elaborates the significance of Yurchenco's history in the III which continues to impact discourses today.
Inter-American Mediations MINKS, AMANDA
Latin American music review,
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In the 1940s, inter-American music projects created new networks of intellectual and musical exchange. This article contributes new archival research on the decades-long relationship between Charles ...Seeger (US composer, teacher, and cofounder of the Society for Ethnomusicology) and Domingo Santa Cruz (Chilean composer, lawyer, diplomat, and founder of the Chilean Music Review). A conceptual focus on “mediations” brings together textuality, materiality, and ideology to expand our narratives and methodologies in critically analyzing the geopolitics of musical knowledge.
En los años de 1940, los proyectos interamericanos de música crearon nuevas redes de intercambios intelectuales y musicales. Este artículo contiene nuevas investigaciones de archivo sobre la relación durante décadas entre Charles Seeger (compositor y musicólogo estadounidense, funcionario cultural, y cofundador de la Sociedad de Etnomusicología) y Domingo Santa Cruz (compositor chileno, abogado, diplomático, y fundador de la Revista Musical Chilena). Un enfoque conceptual sobre “mediaciones” reúne textualidad, materialidad e ideología para ampliar nuestras narrativas y metodologías en análisis crítico de la geopolítica del conocimiento musical.
Modern municipal wastewater treatment often includes an anaerobic digestion step with a hydraulic retention time of ~1.5 days before the main anaerobic digestors. This step, often termed the organic ...acid digester or “acid digester” for short, produces a sludge characterized by lower pH, higher volatile fatty acid (VFA) concentrations, and high soluble phosphorus (P) concentrations, particularly if fed sludge from an enhanced biological phosphorus removal process. Here, the analysis of major ions, organic and inorganic, in the organic acid digest from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), Nine Springs, Madison, Wisconsin (USA), is reported for a period of 13 weeks. The bioengineered origin of this organic acid digest makes its composition unlike natural waters of any kind. From the chemical composition, the course of subsequent processes can be predicted by chemical modelling. Methanogenesis using VFAs as substrates is predicted to raise digest pH to the point where struvite is expected to form, and nuisance struvite is routinely observed at Nine Springs. Addition of calcium hydroxide to organic acid digest is expected to precipitate ~90% of soluble P from solution as the calcium phosphate mineral brushite at near neutral pH, confirmed by a pilot plant at Nine Springs. This study demonstrates the possible application of chemical analysis and chemical modelling in wastewater systems to predict and possibly adaptively manage waste streams to curb nuisance struvite formation and predict P recovery, and could be refined through broader testing and application at other wastewater treatment facilities.
This article explores the construction of Nicaraguan folklore through the lens of inter-American indigenismo. The analysis shows that indigenous folklore occupied an ambivalent position between ...uplifting heritage and backward alterity in mid-20th century discourses of the Inter-American Indigenist Institute as well as in Nicaragua, where distinct colonial histories shaped different modes of representation in the western and eastern regions of the country. These representations contributed to the inequalities embedded in national visions of mestizaje, and their residues can be traced in more recent discourses on indigenous culture.
Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and language in research on, and from, Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of a broader movement across ...regions. In this article, we argue that these relations have their own intellectual genealogies in Latin America and the Caribbean, which have often been neglected in studies written about the region. We focus on recent theorization of aurality-the immediate and mediated practices of listening that construct perceptions of nature, bodies, voices, and technologies. We provide an overview of regional discourses on the interrelations of voice, orality, and writing, and then we discuss the aural turn in four areas: race; migration; socialization and youth cultures; and epistemologies of history, memory, and heritage. We put different bodies of discourse into dialogue as a means of charting a path toward decolonial (inter)disciplinary transformations that are built on other histories, vocalities, and modes of knowledge.
This article brings together theories of performance and language-in-interaction to interpret the socialization and negotiation of gender and sexuality in children’s peer groups. The object of this ...study are song games played by multilingual, indigenous Miskitu children living on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Ethnographic research and micro-analyses of transcribed song game performances demonstrate that mobile aesthetic forms are both a communicative resource and a framework for the formation and re-formation of subjectivity in social discourse. Through the social “work” accomplished by “play,” Miskitu children contribute to an ongoing reshaping of the forms and meanings of gender and sexuality.
