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.