“This book is an ethnomusicological boundary crosser. In Making Music Indigenous, Tucker attends both to the social spaces of performance and to musical texts, to the material and the immaterial, to individual pathways and larger social movements. The complexity of indigenous modernity comes alive in this important study.”
— Beverley Diamond, Memorial University
“Steeped in the literature on indigeneity and years of ethnographic investigation in Peru, Tucker brilliantly examines indigeneity through the emergence of a popular local musical genre, examining the experiences of a musician, an instrument maker, and the many forces shaping music in the Andes today.”
— Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles
"Tucker is masterful in showing how music can provide a unique entry into the study of indigeneity. . . . Summing Up: Recommended."
— CHOICE
"Makes a significant intervention that extends the study of Andean indigeneity beyond the analysis of music, unveiling a complex and changing network of interactions between indigenous musicians, new technologies, nature, educational institutions, NGOs, and ideologies."
— Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
"Joshua Tucker has written an ethnographically rich study focused on describing how contemporary notions of Andean indigeneity are negotiated, constructed and expressed."
— Ethnomusicology Forum