A01=Angela Impey
affect theory
affective
africa
amaculo manihamba
Author_Angela Impey
borderlands
borders
Category=AVA
Category=AVRJ
Category=JHMC
Category=NHH
conservation
cultural study
customs
economics
environment
environmental justice
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ethnomusicology
gender studies
geopolitical
harp
international development
isitweletwele
land
local needs
maputaland
memories
memory
mozambique
music
ndumo
pointing
politics
sense of place
social life
songs
swaziland
talk
testimony
transboundary
walking
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780226537962
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2018
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey investigates contrasting accounts of this little-known geopolitical triangle, offsetting textual histories with the memories of a group of elderly women whose songs and everyday practices narrativize a century of borderland dynamics. Drawing evidence from women’s walking songs (amaculo manihamba)—once performed while traversing vast distances to the accompaniment of the European mouth-harp (isitweletwele)—she uncovers the manifold impacts of internationally-driven transboundary environmental conservation on land, livelihoods, and local senses of place.
This book links ethnomusicological research to larger themes of international development, environmental conservation, gender, and local economic access to resources. By demonstrating that development processes are essentially cultural processes and revealing how music fits within this frame, Song Walking testifies to the affective, spatial, and economic dimensions of place, while contributing to a more inclusive and culturally apposite alignment between land and environmental policies and local needs and practices.
This book links ethnomusicological research to larger themes of international development, environmental conservation, gender, and local economic access to resources. By demonstrating that development processes are essentially cultural processes and revealing how music fits within this frame, Song Walking testifies to the affective, spatial, and economic dimensions of place, while contributing to a more inclusive and culturally apposite alignment between land and environmental policies and local needs and practices.
