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  • 13 - Playing at the Border

  • from Part IV - Boundary Work
  • Edited by Paula J. Bishop, Jada E. Watson, University of Ottawa
  • Book:
    Whose Country Music?
    Published online:
    03 February 2023
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 193-209

  • Summary

    Drawing on two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork singing and playing with three Diné country-western bands, I explore how one Native band lives and responds to border town racism and settler nativism in towns bordering the Navajo Nation, the largest Indian reservation in the United States. I illustrate how country music, a genre that has been embraced by Diné people since the late 1930s, serves as a flashpoint for racialized forms of difference and belonging within the liminal space of the Navajo reservation “border town.” I argue that country music performance serves as a condensed site for the enactment and negotiation of border town tensions, microaggressions, and more blatant forms of racism, providing key insights into the ways in which Indigenous country music unsettles Colorado’s own settler-colonial and settler nativist histories in the border town Southwest.