Kristina Jacobsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Jacobsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobsen |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3408-0542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crafting Fieldwork and Insider/Outsider Collaborations
This article examines fieldwork methodologies and musical ethnography using our respective experiences doing fieldwork on music in Sardinia, Italy. Taking inspiration from the collaborative processes that characterize Sardinian music of oral tradition, we show how our understanding of Sardinian musics and knowledge practices is enriched through our collaborative work, as insiders (Lutzu) and outsiders (Jacobsen) to Sardinia. Building on our train…
The right to lead
This article examines the 2014 Navajo Nation presidential primary election and language debate as a window into the politics of Navajo heritage language and identity. Using Facebook posts written in response to a videotaped hearing testing the fluency of one of the candidates that subsequently went viral, we analyse social citizenship and stigmatized language identities through the lens of critical Diné (Navajo) language consciousness. Focusing o…
New Skies Above
There is sparse literature examining connections between songwriting and trauma overall, or specific connections between songwriting, trauma, the senses and place. This article presents a sense- and place-based approach to songwriting with and by asylum seekers and refugees. We facilitated a four-day songwriting workshop in Turku, Finland, that incorporated trauma-informed approaches, and whose outcomes we documented through ethnography. We respo…
Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya' anii [Towering House]
"Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya'áanii [Towering House]":Adopted Clans, Kinship, and "Blood" in Navajo Country Kristina Jacobsen (bio) and Shirley Ann Bowman (bio) For citizens of the Navajo diaspora Diné comedy duo James and Ernie perform in the Navajo reservation border-town of Farmington, New Mexico.1 In the routine, we are in a smoky bar: a Diné country western band, Aces Wild, is playing a popular song ("The Aces Wild Song"), Navajo co…
Sounds of Crossing
Reviewed by: Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño by Alex E. Chávez Kristina M. Jacobsen Alex E. Chávez, Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 440 pp. Alex Chávez's Sounds of Crossing looks at the way the genre of music called huapango arribeño humanizes its primary participants—Mexican migrants—in a deeply dehumanizing pol…
Sound of Navajo Country
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) 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…
Rita(hhh)
Research Article| October 01 2009 Rita(hhh): Placemaking and Country Music on the Navajo Nation Kristina Jacobsen Kristina Jacobsen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (3): 449–477. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristina Jacobsen; Rita(hhh): Placemaking and Country Music on the Navajo Nation. Ethnom…
Sound of Navajo Country
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) 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…
Rita(hhh)
Research Article| October 01 2009 Rita(hhh): Placemaking and Country Music on the Navajo Nation Kristina Jacobsen Kristina Jacobsen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (3): 449–477. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristina Jacobsen; Rita(hhh): Placemaking and Country Music on the Navajo Nation. Ethnom…
Crafting Fieldwork and Insider/Outsider Collaborations
This article examines fieldwork methodologies and musical ethnography using our respective experiences doing fieldwork on music in Sardinia, Italy. Taking inspiration from the collaborative processes that characterize Sardinian music of oral tradition, we show how our understanding of Sardinian musics and knowledge practices is enriched through our collaborative work, as insiders (Lutzu) and outsiders (Jacobsen) to Sardinia. Building on our train…
Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya' anii [Towering House]
"Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya'áanii [Towering House]":Adopted Clans, Kinship, and "Blood" in Navajo Country Kristina Jacobsen (bio) and Shirley Ann Bowman (bio) For citizens of the Navajo diaspora Diné comedy duo James and Ernie perform in the Navajo reservation border-town of Farmington, New Mexico.1 In the routine, we are in a smoky bar: a Diné country western band, Aces Wild, is playing a popular song ("The Aces Wild Song"), Navajo co…
Rita(hhh)
Research Article| October 01 2009 Rita(hhh): Placemaking and Country Music on the Navajo Nation Kristina Jacobsen Kristina Jacobsen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (3): 449–477. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristina Jacobsen; Rita(hhh): Placemaking and Country Music on the Navajo Nation. Ethnom…
Sound of Navajo Country
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) 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…
New Skies Above
There is sparse literature examining connections between songwriting and trauma overall, or specific connections between songwriting, trauma, the senses and place. This article presents a sense- and place-based approach to songwriting with and by asylum seekers and refugees. We facilitated a four-day songwriting workshop in Turku, Finland, that incorporated trauma-informed approaches, and whose outcomes we documented through ethnography. We respo…
Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya' anii [Towering House]
"Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya'áanii [Towering House]":Adopted Clans, Kinship, and "Blood" in Navajo Country Kristina Jacobsen (bio) and Shirley Ann Bowman (bio) For citizens of the Navajo diaspora Diné comedy duo James and Ernie perform in the Navajo reservation border-town of Farmington, New Mexico.1 In the routine, we are in a smoky bar: a Diné country western band, Aces Wild, is playing a popular song ("The Aces Wild Song"), Navajo co…
Sounds of Crossing
Reviewed by: Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño by Alex E. Chávez Kristina M. Jacobsen Alex E. Chávez, Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 440 pp. Alex Chávez's Sounds of Crossing looks at the way the genre of music called huapango arribeño humanizes its primary participants—Mexican migrants—in a deeply dehumanizing pol…
The right to lead
This article examines the 2014 Navajo Nation presidential primary election and language debate as a window into the politics of Navajo heritage language and identity. Using Facebook posts written in response to a videotaped hearing testing the fluency of one of the candidates that subsequently went viral, we analyse social citizenship and stigmatized language identities through the lens of critical Diné (Navajo) language consciousness. Focusing o…
Crafting Fieldwork and Insider/Outsider Collaborations
This article examines fieldwork methodologies and musical ethnography using our respective experiences doing fieldwork on music in Sardinia, Italy. Taking inspiration from the collaborative processes that characterize Sardinian music of oral tradition, we show how our understanding of Sardinian musics and knowledge practices is enriched through our collaborative work, as insiders (Lutzu) and outsiders (Jacobsen) to Sardinia. Building on our train…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Musical (4 works) · Navajo (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Ethnomusicology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)