{"id":11738,"date":"2026-06-02T08:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/?p=11738"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:53:42","slug":"engaging-colonial-sound-archives-a-comprehensive-and-shared-listening-approach-to-an-angolan-folk-song-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/engaging-colonial-sound-archives-a-comprehensive-and-shared-listening-approach-to-an-angolan-folk-song-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging colonial sound archives: a comprehensive and shared listening approach to an Angolan folk song"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cristina S\u00e1 Valentim<\/strong><\/p>\n

Engaging colonial sound archives: a comprehensive and shared listening approach to an Angolan folk song<\/em><\/p>\n

Etnogr\u00e1fica, 29 (3), 645-662<\/p>\n

https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/154s3<\/a><\/p>\n

Cristina Valentim publicou o artigo “Engaging colonial sound archives: a comprehensive and shared listening approach to an Angolan folk song“<\/em> na revista Etnogr\u00e1fica, sec\u00e7\u00e3o Multimodal.<\/p>\n

This article draws on anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, sound studies, and postcolonial theory to engage with a Cokwe song recorded in the 1950\u2019s in northeastern Angola.\u00a0<\/span>Muambu\u00e2mbua<\/span><\/em>\u00a0song addresses desertion from colonial contract or forced labor, a practice often depicted in historiography as a straightforward act of anticolonial resistance.\u00a0<\/span>However, by analyzing this song through a methodology that I term \u201ccomprehensive and shared listening\u201d, I uncover meanings of flight from forced labor that move beyond this narrow framework. The study combines archival research with multi-sited, collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in Portugal and Angola (2014-1016). The song is examined in dialogue with diverse archival sources and narratives shared by interlocutors. This\u00a0<\/span>approach reveals how\u00a0<\/span>sensitive experiences shaped by unequal power relations cannot be fully understood through sound recordings or visual and written documents alone.\u00a0<\/span>By engaging with sound through alternative modes of listening \u2013 the archive itself and to people who inhabit its histories \u2013 this article exposes hidden layers of meaning about colonial domination, African resistance, and agency,\u00a0<\/span>and contributes<\/span>\u00a0to the decolonial reactivation of colonial sound archives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Keywords: Cokwe music \u2013 Angola,\u00a0colonial sound archives,\u00a0power,\u00a0forced\/contract labor,\u00a0research methodology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Palavras-chave:\u00a0m\u00fasica cokwe \u2013 Angola,\u00a0arquivos sonoros coloniais,\u00a0poder,\u00a0trabalho for\u00e7ado\/contratado,\u00a0metodologias de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Refer\u00eancia: Cristina\u00a0S\u00e1 Valentim<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0\u00abEngaging colonial sound archives: a comprehensive and shared listening approach to an Angolan folk song<\/span>\u00bb<\/span>,\u00a0Etnogr\u00e1fica<\/em>\u00a0[Online], 29 (3)\u00a0|\u00a02025, posto online no dia\u00a011 novembro 2025<\/span>, consultado o\u00a015 abril 2026<\/span>.\u00a0URL<\/span>: http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/etnografica\/19470;\u00a0DOI<\/span>: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/154s3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artigo de Cristina S\u00e1 Valentim, explora o arquivo colonial, e perspectivas de interlocutores chowke contempor\u00e2neos e perspectivas criticas, com base numa metodologia de escuta partilhada. Etnogr\u00e1fica, 29 (3), 645-662. Acesso aberto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,40],"tags":[9,97,96,332,74,312,376,399],"class_list":["post-11738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publicacao","category-investigacao","tag-angola","tag-archive","tag-ethnography","tag-forced-labour","tag-indigenous-history","tag-colonialismo","tag-decolonial-methodologies","tag-sonic-culture"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"pt","enabled_languages":["en","pt"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"pt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11747,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions\/11747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}