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Engaging with justice and environmental ethics, education and indigenous knowledge systems, musical and linguistic analysis, and the ethics of recording practice, Pooley's analysis draws on genres of music and dance recorded in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa, and in Johannesburg's inner city.

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The Land Is Sung is a significant addition to a long tradition of critical writing about South African performance after apartheid. Focusing on one of the most marginalized regions of South Africa, Pooley adroitly complicates the concept of 'Zulu' music as a homogeneous body of sounds. Music, he argues, is inextricably intertwined with the heady debates about governance, justice, ethics, community, land ownership, and genealogy that have defined the north-eastern edges of the province of Kwazulu-Natal for centuries and that continue to both divide and unite its inhabitants. --Veit Erlmann, author of Lion's Share: Remaking South African Copyright

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THOMAS M. POOLEY (Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) is an associate professor of musicology and chair of the department of art and music at the University of South Africa. He is the editor-in-chief of Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa.

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