Sounding Indigenous
Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance
Authors: Bigenho, M.
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- About this book
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Sounding Indigenous explores the relations between music, people, and places through analysis of Bolivian music performances: by a non-governmental organization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble, and by the people living in two rural areas of Potosi. Based on research conducted between 1993 and 1995, the book frames debates of Bolivian national and indigenous identities in terms of different attitudes people assume towards cultural and artistic authenticity. The book makes unique contributions through an emphasis on music as sensory experience, through its theorization of authenticity in relation to music, through its combined focus on different kinds of Bolivian music (indigenous, popular, avant-garde), through its combined focus on music performance and the Bolivian nation, and through its interpretation of local, national, and transnational fieldwork experiences.
- About the authors
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MICHELLE BIGENHO is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Hampshire College. Her field of research has focused on music performance in Bolivia and Peru.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Authenticity Matters
Pages 1-28
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What Makes You Want To Dance
Pages 29-60
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“Time!”
Pages 61-96
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Indigenous Cool and the Politics of Aesthetics
Pages 97-137
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The Burden and Lightness of Authenticity
Pages 139-168
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Sounding Indigenous
- Book Subtitle
- Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance
- Authors
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- M. Bigenho
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-11813-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-137-11813-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-312-24015-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 289
- Topics
