Singing for the dead [electronic resource] : the politics of indigenous revival in Mexico / Paja Faudree.

0822391899
9780822391890 electronic book
0822354160 hardcover : cover
0822354314 paperback
9780822354161 hardcover : cover
9780822354314 paperback

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

English

1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps

F1221.M35 F38 2013

"Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political effects. Paja Faudree argues for the inclusion of singing as a necessary component in the polarized debates about indigenous orality and literacy, and she considers how the coupling of literacy and song has allowed people from the region to create texts of enduring social resonance. She examines how local young people are learning to read and write in Mazatec as a result of the region's new Day of the Dead song contest. Faudree also studies how tourist interest in local psychedelic mushrooms has led to their commodification, producing both opportunities and challenges for songwriters and others who represent Mazatec culture. She situates these revival movements within the contexts of Mexico and Latin America, as well as the broad, hemisphere-wide movement to create indigenous literatures. Singing for the Dead provides a new way to think about the politics of ethnicity, the success of social movements, and the limits of national belonging." -- Publisher's description.

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