| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. By David W. Samuels. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. x + 324 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

This book fills a gap in the anthropology of contemporary music in Native North America. Drawing upon semiotic analysis and arguing for the importance of non-referential expression to identity, David Samuels offers a nuanced account of the centrality of ambiguity to identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. The author analytically and ethnographically privileges contemporary music (country, rock, reggae) over "traditional" Apache music, arguing that indigenous identity cannot be located simply in forms that outsiders recognize as distinct, historical, and traditional. Samuels does not simply make a case for hybridity, or for Apaches' ability to render "outside" music meaningful. Instead, he suggests that mood and feeling, more than form or referential capacity, enable Apaches to perform, consume, and circulate contemporary music in ways that connect them to history, place, and each other.

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