Putting a Song on Top of It

"As in many Native American communities, people on the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona have for centuries been exposed to contradictory pressures. Using insights gained from both linguistic and musical practices in the community - as well as from his own experience playing in an Apache country band - David Samuels explores the complex expressive lives of these people to offer new ways of thinking about cultural identity. Samuels analyzes how people on the reservation make productive use of popular culture forms to create and transform contemporary expressions of Apache cultural identity."--Jacket.