In the Time of Cannibals - The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants

Acknowledgments Preface Orthographic Note Ch. 1: "Hyenas Do Not Sleep Together": The Interpretation of Basotho Migrants' Auriture Ch. 2: "The Mouth of a Commoner Is Not Listened To": Power, Performance, and History Ch. 3: "Greetings, Child of God!": Generations of Travelers and Their Songs Ch. 4: "An Initiation Secret Is Not Told at Home": The Making of a Country Traveler Ch. 5: "These Mine Compounds, I Have Long Worked Them": Auriture and Migrants' Labors Ch. 6: "I'd Rather Die in the Whiteman's Land": The Traveling Women of Eloquence Ch. 7: "My Heart Fights with My Understanding": Bar Women's Auriture and Basotho Popular Culture Ch. 8: "Eloquence Is Not Stuck on Like a Feather": Sesotho Aural Composition and Aesthetics Ch. 9: "Laughter Is Greater than Death": Migrants' Songs and the Meaning of Sesotho Appendix One Appendix Two References IndexNotes

About the author

David B. Coplan is associate professor of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of In Township Tonight: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre.

Summary

The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighbouring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry - "word music" - that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. Complete with transcriptions of performances, this book discusses this musical literature.

Product details

• Authors: David Coplan, David B. Coplan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1995
• EAN: 9780226115740
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11574-0
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous