Minks, Amanda

has completed and defended (September 2005) her dissertation about Miskitu children's expressive practices and peer socialization on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. She has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Fulbright Institute of International Education. She holds an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. She has served as assistant editor of The Yearbook for Traditional Music and Current Musicology. Her publications include "Growing and Grooving to a Steady Beat: Pop Music in Fifth-Graders' Social Lives", Yearbook for Traditional Music 31, 1999:77-101,and "From Children's Song to Expressive Practices: Old and New Directions in the Ethnomusicological Study of Children", Ethnomusicology 46(3): 379-408.
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