PROF Angela Impey ai6@soas.ac.uk
Professor of Ethnomusicology
Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan
Impey, Angela
Authors
Contributors
Julian Fifer
Editor
Angela Impey
Editor
Peter G. Kirchschlaeger
Editor
Manfred Nowak
Editor
George Ulrich
Editor
Abstract
South Sudan is the newest country in Africa. Half a century of almost continuous civil war with Sudan – in which approximately 2.5 million people were killed and over 4 million people displaced. Weak institutional capacity and extensive government corruption have deepened dependence on international aid, which attempts to compensate for vast infrastructural gaps across a range of sectors: food, health, water, sanitation, education, governance, and the struggle for peace and security. As songs in South Sudan’s Nilotic pastoralist cultures are a key platform for oral histories and truth-telling – and are often invested with greater moral force than other forms of oratory. South Sudanese legal scholars John Makec and Wal Duany draw attention, respectively, to the moral authority carried by songs in Dinka and Nuer customary law, describing their role in civil hearings in facilitating a dynamic inter-animation between disclosure, listening, and conciliation.
Citation
Impey, A. (2022). Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan. In J. Fifer, A. Impey, P. G. Kirchschlaeger, M. Nowak, & G. Ulrich (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (127-139). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478-11
Publication Date | May 1, 2022 |
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Deposit Date | Mar 15, 2021 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 127-139 |
Series Title | Routledge Companion Series and SOAS Studies in Music |
Book Title | The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights |
ISBN | 9780367489090 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478-11 |
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