Voices of Play: Miskitu Children’s Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

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Whilst indigenous languages have develop into prominent in global political and educational discourses, limited attention has been given to indigenous children’s on a regular basis communication. Voices of Play is a study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, a part of a multi-ethnic autonomous region on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
 
Corn Island is historically home to Afro-Caribbean Creole people, but increasing numbers of Miskitu people started moving there from the mainland throughout the Contra War, and lots of Spanish-speaking mestizos from western Nicaragua have also settled there. Miskitu kids on Corn Island continuously 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.
Voices of Play is the first ethnography to concentrate 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 variety 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.

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