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Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of Kwaito—a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Waar Was Jy? Yeoville circa 1996 1
1. Afrodiasporic Space: Refiguring Africa in Diaspora Analytics 29
2. Jozi Nights: The Post-Apartheid City, Encounter, and Mobility 57
3. "Si-Ghetto Fabulous": Self-Fashioning, Consumption, and Pleasure in Kwaito 92
4. The Kwaito Feminine: Lebo Mathosa as a "Dangerous Woman" 122
5. The Black Masculine in Kwaito: Mandoza and the Limits of Hypermasculine Performance 155
6. Mafikizolo and Youth Day Parties: (Melancholic) Conviviality and the Queering of Utopian Memory 188
Coda. Kwaito Futures, Remastered Freedoms 224
Notes 235
Glossary 239
References 243
Index 259
About the author
Xavier Livermon is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and coeditor of
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital.
Summary
Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of Kwaito—a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.
