Prelude -- Introduction: staying put -- On fieldwork methods and movements: "song is good speech" -- Dissonance: gender -- The gender of authenticity -- Consonance: homeland -- Building the homeland: labor, roads, emigration -- Voicing the homeland: objectification, order, displacement -- Antiphony: periphery -- Transformation in the Sous Valley -- Ishelhin into Arabs? ethnolinguistic differentiating practices in the periphery -- Resonance -- Mediating the countryside: purists and pundits on Tashelhit radio -- Conclusion.