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Authored Books

Impey, Angela (2018) Song Walking: Women, music, and environmental justice in an African borderland. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Fifer, Julian, Impey, Angela, Kirchschlaeger, Peter G., Nowak, Manfred and Ulrich, George, eds. (2022) The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. New York: Routledge. (Routledge Companion Series and Routledge SOAS Studies in Music.)

Book Chapters

Impey, Angela (2025) 'Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change.' In: Ware, Vicki-Ann, Sadeghi-Yekta, Kirsten, Prentki, Tim, Al-Kurdi, Wasim and Kabanda, Patrick, (eds.), Performing Knowledge: Utilising arts-based research in development. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming)

Harris, Rachel and Isa Elkun, Aziz (2022) 'Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.' In: Impey, Angela, (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. Abingdon: Routledge. (SOAS Studies in Music)

Ulrich, George and Impey, Angela (2022) 'Introduction.' In: Fifer, Julian, Impey, Angela, Kirchschlaeger, Peter G., Nowak, Manfred and Ulrich, George, (eds.), Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-11. (Routledge Companion Series and SOAS Studies in Music)

Impey, Angela (2022) 'Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan.' In: Fifer, Julian, Impey, Angela, Kirchschlaeger, Peter G., Nowak, Manfred and Ulrich, George, (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, pp. 127-139. (Routledge Companion Series and SOAS Studies in Music)

Impey, Angela (2021) 'Performing Transitional Justice: Song, Truth-telling and Memory in South Sudan.' In: Diamond, Beverley and El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Salwa, (eds.), Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume I: Methodologies, Institutional Structures, and Policies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cottrell, Stephen and Impey, Angela (2018) 'Community Music and Ethnomusicology.' In: Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh and Higgins, Lee, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Community Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 525-541. (Oxford Handbooks)

Impey, Angela (2015) 'Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka networks, connections and intimacies beyond the war zone.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Impey, Angela (2015) '“Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World. Sounds and Culture. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 195-207.

Impey, Angela (2015) 'Sound, Memory and Dis/placement: Exploring Sound, Song and Performance as Oral History in the Southern African Borderlands.' In: Perks, Robert and Thomson, Alistair, (eds.), Oral History Reader, 3rd edition. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Readers in History)

Impey, Angela (2011) 'Songs of the In-Between: Remembering in the Land that memory Forgot.' In: Ian, Peddie, (ed.), Popular Music and Human Rights. London: Ashgate, pp. 39-52. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Impey, Angela (2005) 'Culture, Conservation and Community Reconstruction: Explorations in Advocacy Ethnomusicology in the Dukuduku Forests, Northern KwaZulu Natal.' In: Post, Jennifer, (ed.), Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 401-411.

Journal Article

Impey, Angela (2019) 'Activism, advocacy and community engagement: Ethnomusicological Responses to Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees.' Ethnomusicology, 63 (2). pp. 279-314.

Impey, Angela (2013) 'The Poetics of Transitional Justice in Dinka Songs in South Sudan.' UNISCI Discussion Papers (33). pp. 57-78.

Impey, Angela (2013) 'Songs of Mobility and Belonging: Gender, Spatiality and the Local in Southern Africa’s Transfrontier Conservation Development.' Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 15 (2). pp. 255-271.

Impey, Angela (2013) 'Keeping in Touch via Cassette: Tracing Dinka Songs from Cattle Camp to Transnational Audio-Letter.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25 (2). pp. 197-210.

Pavlicevic, Mercédès and Impey, Angela (2013) 'Deep listening: towards an imaginative reframing of health and well-being practices in international development.' Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 5 (3). pp. 238-252.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Impey, Angela (2010) ''African Jim': sound, politics, and pleasure in early 'black' South African cinema.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 22 (1). pp. 57-73.

Impey, Angela (2007) 'Pathways of Song: Re-voicing Women's Landscapes in the Maputaland Borderlands.' Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity, 21 (73). pp. 102-16.

Impey, Angela (2007) 'Sound, memory and dis/placement: Exploring sound, song and performance as oral history in the southern African borderlands.' Oral History, 36 (1). pp. 33-44.

Impey, Angela (2006) 'Musical Constructions of Place: Linking Music to Environmental Action in the St Lucia Wetlands.' Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 23. pp. 92-106.

Impey, Angela (2006) 'Sounding Place in the Western Maputaland Borderlands.' Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 3 (1). pp. 55-79.

Impey, Angela (2002) 'Culture, Conservation and Community Reconstruction: Explorations in Participatory Action Research and Advocacy Ethnomusicology in the Dukuduku Forests, Northern KwaZulu Natal (South Africa).' Yearbook for Traditional Music, 34. pp. 9-24.

Book Reviews

Impey, Angela (2010) 'Review of Jürgen Schöpf, 'The Serankure and Music in Tlôkweng, Botswana'. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2008.' The World of Music, 51 (2). pp. 168-169.

Impey, Angela (2009) 'Review of Mark Slobin (ed.), 'Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music'. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 2008.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 18 (1). pp. 170-172.

Impey, Angela (2005) 'Review of Christine Lucia (ed.), 'The World of South African Music. A Reader'. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 16 (2). pp. 343-345.

Other

Bruce, Katie and Impey, Angela (2018) 'Framing Musicians without Borders Peacebuilding Agenda. A Case Study analysis of Soy Música and Palestine Community Music.' SOAS: Self-published.