Nightsong Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa

Video Contents Figures and Musical Examples Note on Orthography and Translation Preface Introduction: Joseph Bekhizizwe Shabalala: A Unifying Force 1: Performance Theorized 2: Isicathamiya Performance Represented 3: The History of Isicathamiya, 1891-1991 4: The Unhomely: Performers and Migrants 5: Ekhaya: The Past, the Home, and the Nation Revived 6: The Home Embodied: Dance and Dress in Isicathamiya 7: Praise and Prayer: The Rhetoric of Isicathamiya 8: Attacking with Song: The Aesthetics of Power and Competition 9: "Strengthening Native Home Life": Isicathamiya and Hegemony 10: Things Will Come Right: The Political Economy of Noncommercial Performance 11: "Two Worlds, One Heart": Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black MambazoPostscript, 1994 Notes A Select Discography of Isicathamiya Glossary References Index

Summary

This text provides an interpretation of isicathamiya performance and its relation to the culture and consciousness of the Zulu migrant labourers who largely compose its choirs. It addresses issues in anthropology and looks to the future of live performance in the new South Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Veit Erlmann, Erlmann Veit
• Publisher: University Presses
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.03.1996
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780226217215
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21721-5
• Pages: 462
• Dimensions (packing): 1.6 x 2.3 x 0.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 794 g
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subjects: Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Southern Africa, Folk & traditional music, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies