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Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation

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In this article, I examine race, sound, and belonging through an analysis of the first Navajo/African American Miss Navajo Nation, Radmilla Cody. Cody, a professional singer and a Navajo citizen, has been a polarizing public figure in Navajo communities since her crowning in 1997. Utilizing a mixed methodology of participant observation, sound recordings, and press releases, I probe how sound and voice inform
a politics of indigeneity in today’s Navajo Nation (Dine´ Bike´yah). Focusing on black/Native parentage and how sound serves as an additional form of marking, I foreground how voice, musical genre, and blood quantum inform public opinion about social authenticity and about who belongs as a Dine´ citizen. My larger contention becomes that both poetics and politics matter, albeit in differing ways and on divergent scales. [race; politics of indigeneity; sound; blood quantum; belonging; kinship; voice]

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Judul Seri

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

: The American Anthropological Association.,

Deskripsi Fisik

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp. 385–410

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English

ISBN/ISSN

15481360

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Tipe Media

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Subjek

ANTROPOLOGI

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Yuli / Hasndiar

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