Amanda Minks
Biographic Data
| ID | 453365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Minks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Minks |
| SIGNATURE | MINKS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas
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 di…
Henrietta Yurchenco, música indígena e indigenismo interamericano en la década de 1940
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 cros…
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings
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 imme…
Inter-American Mediations: Charles Seeger, Domingo Santa Cruz, and the Politics of Transnational Musical Exchange
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, materi…
Socializing Heteroglossia among Miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua
This article adapts Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia" as a framework for analyzing Miskitu children's multilingual speech on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Analysis of naturally occurring speech in this context illustrates the utility of partial competencies and hybridized speech, supporting a view of language not as a bounded system, but as a diverse pool of communicative resources that socialize children into multiple modes of …
Reading Nicaraguan Folklore Through Inter-AmericanIndigenismo, 1940-1970
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…
Voices of Play: Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
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 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 …
Performing gender in song games among Nicaraguan Miskitu children
From Children's Song to Expressive Practices: Old and New Directions in the Ethnomusicological Study of Children
n the past century, the scholarly study of children's song and their musical play has been an important site for staging theories about nature and culture, reproduction and transformation, coherence and eclecticism. These theories have sometimes been merely implicit in research methodology or mode of presentation, but they are nevertheless crucial factors in understanding diverse perspectives on children which implicate real political, economic, …
Growing and Grooving to a Steady Beat: Pop Music in Fifth-Graders' Social Lives
As everyday musical experience becomes increasingly mediated by radio, recordings, television, film, and computers, scholarly and popular discourses about music are periodically punctuated by concerns over consumer passivity and alienation. When we shift the focus to the musical practices of children and youth, these concerns are accompanied by age-old arguments over the intellectual, moral, and physical effects of music on developing young peopl…
Socializing Heteroglossia among Miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua
This article adapts Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia" as a framework for analyzing Miskitu children's multilingual speech on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Analysis of naturally occurring speech in this context illustrates the utility of partial competencies and hybridized speech, supporting a view of language not as a bounded system, but as a diverse pool of communicative resources that socialize children into multiple modes of …
From Children's Song to Expressive Practices: Old and New Directions in the Ethnomusicological Study of Children
n the past century, the scholarly study of children's song and their musical play has been an important site for staging theories about nature and culture, reproduction and transformation, coherence and eclecticism. These theories have sometimes been merely implicit in research methodology or mode of presentation, but they are nevertheless crucial factors in understanding diverse perspectives on children which implicate real political, economic, …
Performing gender in song games among Nicaraguan Miskitu children
Reading Nicaraguan Folklore Through Inter-AmericanIndigenismo, 1940-1970
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…
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings
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 imme…
Inter-American Mediations: Charles Seeger, Domingo Santa Cruz, and the Politics of Transnational Musical Exchange
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, materi…
Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas
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 di…
Growing and Grooving to a Steady Beat: Pop Music in Fifth-Graders' Social Lives
As everyday musical experience becomes increasingly mediated by radio, recordings, television, film, and computers, scholarly and popular discourses about music are periodically punctuated by concerns over consumer passivity and alienation. When we shift the focus to the musical practices of children and youth, these concerns are accompanied by age-old arguments over the intellectual, moral, and physical effects of music on developing young peopl…
From Children's Song to Expressive Practices: Old and New Directions in the Ethnomusicological Study of Children
n the past century, the scholarly study of children's song and their musical play has been an important site for staging theories about nature and culture, reproduction and transformation, coherence and eclecticism. These theories have sometimes been merely implicit in research methodology or mode of presentation, but they are nevertheless crucial factors in understanding diverse perspectives on children which implicate real political, economic, …
Performing gender in song games among Nicaraguan Miskitu children
Voices of Play: Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
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 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 …
Reading Nicaraguan Folklore Through Inter-AmericanIndigenismo, 1940-1970
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…
Socializing Heteroglossia among Miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua
This article adapts Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia" as a framework for analyzing Miskitu children's multilingual speech on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Analysis of naturally occurring speech in this context illustrates the utility of partial competencies and hybridized speech, supporting a view of language not as a bounded system, but as a diverse pool of communicative resources that socialize children into multiple modes of …
Inter-American Mediations: Charles Seeger, Domingo Santa Cruz, and the Politics of Transnational Musical Exchange
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, materi…
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings
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 imme…
Henrietta Yurchenco, música indígena e indigenismo interamericano en la década de 1940
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 cros…
Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas
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 di…
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)