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In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Autor David B. Coplan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 1995
The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighboring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry—word music—that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrant's life. It reveals the relationship between these Basotho workers and the local and South African powers that be, the "cannibals" who live off of the workers' labor. David Coplan presents a moving collection of material that for the first time reveals the expressive genius of these tenacious but disenfranchised people.

Coplan discusses every aspect of the Basotho musical literature, taking into account historical conditions, political dynamics, and social forces as well as the styles, artistry, and occasions of performance. He engages the postmodern challenge to decolonize our representation of the ethnographic subject and demonstrates how performance formulates local knowledge and communicates its shared understandings.

Complete with transcriptions of full male and female performances, this book develops a theoretical and methodological framework crucial to anyone seeking to understand the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of performance. This work is an important contribution to South African studies, to ethnomusicology and anthropology, and to performance studies in general.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226115740
ISBN-10: 0226115747
Pagini: 322
Ilustrații: 8 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology


Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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
Index
Notes