{"product_id":"voices-of-play-amanda-minks-9780816542666","title":"Voices of Play: Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua","description":"While indigenous languages have become prominent in global political and educational discourses, limited attention has been given to indigenous children's everyday communication. \u003ci\u003eVoices of Play \u003c\/i\u003eis a study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, part of a multi-ethnic autonomous region on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Corn Island is historically home to Afro-Caribbean Creole people, but increasing numbers of Miskitu people began moving there from the mainland during the Contra War, and many Spanish-speaking mestizos from western Nicaragua have also settled there. Miskitu kids on Corn Island often gain some competence speaking Miskitu, Spanish, and Kriol English. As the children of migrants and the first generation of their families to grow up with television, they develop creative forms of expression that combine languages and genres, shaping intercultural senses of belonging. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoices of Play\u003c\/i\u003e is the first ethnography to focus on the interaction between music and language in children's discourse. Minks skillfully weaves together Latin American, North American, and European theories of culture and communication, creating a transdisciplinary dialogue that moves across intellectual geographies. Her analysis shows how music and language involve a wide range of communicative resources that create new forms of belonging and enable dialogue across differences. Miskitu children's voices reveal the intertwining of speech and song, the emergence of \"self\" and \"other,\" and the centrality of aesthetics to social struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda Minks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081654266X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816542666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Amanda Minks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448985989375,"sku":"9780816542666","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_78ebaa71-4d72-4004-a4bc-d33136b9f4bf.jpg?v=1777261450","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/voices-of-play-amanda-minks-9780816542666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}