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The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music (2023)
Thesis
Gardner, J. A. The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

It has become commonplace today to invoke the word improvisation when discussing the soloistic melodic dimensions of the music of the kora, the twenty-one-string bridge harp of the Mande people of West Africa. Typically, the term is used to denote th... Read More about The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music.

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

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brin... Read More about The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights.

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.

Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique (2022)
Thesis
Campbell, R. Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research explores relationships between dyslexia and music-making through an experiential open-access web-thesis. That the project can be interpreted in multiple ways challenges conventional forms of academic knowledge production, as well as ins... Read More about Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique.