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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Coplan, David B. Coplan
• Edition: University Of Chicago Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.02.1995
• EAN: 9780226115740
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11574-0
• Pages: 322
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Poids: 510 g
• Thèmes: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Autres