Leslie Marmon Silko As A Trickster In Animal Collective's Mercury Man

Leslie Marmon Silko. Would you consider her a trickster? I initially planned to use _Storyteller_ for my capstone. More on the lines of simple unreliability, individualism, storytelling. All that good stuff. “Mexican Radio” sounds so similar to Animal Collective’s “Mercury Man,” which then got me thinking about how Animal Collective could be viewed as a form of trickstery. Explosion of beats and voices— can barely comprehend the lyrics until you actually read them and realize they’re not just yelling nonsense. When I play their music for someone, I always let them know they probably will hate it because to a first listener, they sound deranged, indeed obnoxious. Same concept goes for trickster characters. When you first began their story, they