Sounding Indigenous(English, Paperback, Bigenho M.)

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Sounding Indigenous(English, Paperback, Bigenho M.) is written by Bigenho M. and published by St Martin's Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0312240155 (ISBN 10) and 9780312240158 (ISBN 13).

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.