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Auteur(s) : Impey, Angela
Titre(s) : Song walking [Texte imprimé] : women, music, and environmental justice in an African borderland / Angela Impey
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : x, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Lien à la collection : Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-274) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Afrique du Sud
Écomusicologie -- Afrique du Sud
Musique et société -- Afrique du Sud
Guimbardes (famille d'instruments) -- Société -- Afrique du Sud
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226537962. - ISBN 022653796X. - ISBN 9780226538013. - ISBN 022653801X. -
ISBN 9780226538150 (erroné)
EAN 9780226538013
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456761084
Notice n° :
FRBNF45676108
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Paths toward a hearing ; Amaculo manihamba: a genre considered ; Walking, singing,
pointing, Usuthu Gorge ; Cartographic encounters: settling the Southeast African
border ; New routes in and out, Eziphosheni ; Rain is only one aspect of water
; Dwelling in a futurized past: longing for Ndumo ; Beyond talk and testimony ;
Postscript.
