"What is the sound of America?" -- Introduction -- Joe Shunatona and the United States Indian Reservation Orchestra / John W. Troutman -- American Indian jazz : Mildred Bailey and the origins of America's most musical art form / Chad Hamill -- Jazz and the politics of identity : the spirit of Jim Pepper / Bill Siegel -- Speaking for the people : the protest music of Buffy Sainte-Marie and Floyd Westerman / Kimberli Lee -- Brothers of the blade : three native axmen : Link Wray, Robbie Robertson and Jesse Ed Davis / Scott Prinzing -- "We were all wounded at Wounded Knee" : the engaged resistance of folk and rock in the Red Power era / Jan Johnson -- "We'll get there with music" : sonic literacies, rhetorics of alliance, and decolonial healing in Joy Harjo's Winding through the Milky Way / Gabriela R. Rios -- Hearing the heartbeat : environmental cultural values found in the lyrics of native songwriters / Samantha Hasek and April E. Lindala -- "The story of a lifetime" : singing, crossing, and claiming in Lila Downs' "Minimum wage" / Casie C. Cobos -- Babylon inna Hopiland : articulations of tradition and social injustice by the Hopi reggae musician Casper Loma-da-wa Lomayesva / David Walsh -- Blackfire's land-based ethics : the Benally family and the protection of shi kéyah hozhoni / Jeff Berglund -- A reading of Eekwol's apprentice to the mystery as an expression of Cree youth's cultural role and responsibility / Gail A. Mackay -- "By the time I get to Arizona" : hiphop responses to Arizona SB 1070 / Marcos Del Hierro.