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Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change (2025)
Book Chapter
Impey, A. (2025). Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change. In V.-A. Ware, K. Sadeghi-Yekta, T. Prentki, & W. Al-Kurdi (Eds.), Arts-based Research in Global Development: Performing Knowledge. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003381846-15

This chapter considers ways of listening across disciplinary, sectoral and cultural barriers in support of more culturally sensitive, inclusive approaches to development policy and practice. Responding to the growing appeal for creative solutions to... Read More about Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change.

Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (2022)
Book Chapter
Harris, R., & Isa Elkun, A. (2022). Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In A. Impey (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478-24

The national hit song Little Apple released by the Chopstick brothers in May 2014, was a catchy, synthesizer-heavy, retro-style love song with an insistent beat. The song also resounded across the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in north-west China... Read More about Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Ulrich, G., & Impey, A. (2022). Introduction. In J. Fifer, A. Impey, P. G. Kirchschlaeger, M. Nowak, & G. Ulrich (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (1-11). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478-1

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the very idea of human rights and its role in contemporary international law. It devotes to probing a broad range of affin... Read More about Introduction.

Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan (2022)
Book Chapter
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

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 co... Read More about Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan.

Performing Transitional Justice: Song, Truth-telling and Memory in South Sudan (2021)
Book Chapter
Impey, A. (2021). Performing Transitional Justice: Song, Truth-telling and Memory in South Sudan. In B. Diamond, & S. El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (Eds.), Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume I: Methodologies, Institutional Structures, and Policies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197517604.003.0011

This chapter examines the role of performance ethnography in development practice, focusing in particular on the contributions of ethnomusicological research to current discourses on transitional justice in post-conflict states. Inspired by the appea... Read More about Performing Transitional Justice: Song, Truth-telling and Memory in South Sudan.

Community Music and Ethnomusicology (2018)
Book Chapter
Cottrell, S., & Impey, A. (2018). Community Music and Ethnomusicology. In B.-L. Bartleet, & L. Higgins (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Community Music (525-541). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219505.013.12

This chapter reflects on the similarities and differences between community music and applied ethnomusicology. We argue that to describe a particular study as belonging to one or the other of these sub-disciplines is often as much a reflection of sch... Read More about Community Music and Ethnomusicology.

“Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone. (2015)
Book Chapter
Impey, A. (2015). “Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone. In R. Harris, & R. Pease (Eds.), Pieces of the Musical World. Sounds and Culture (195-207). Routledge

This chapter explores the practice of song-making and sharing in the
culture of the Dinka people of South Sudan. It focuses in particular
on the global circulation of songs in the form of cassette audio-letters
which pass between South Sudan and t... Read More about “Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone..