Nightsong : performance, power, and practice in South Africa
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Nightsong : performance, power, and practice in South Africa
（Chicago studies in ethnomusicology）
University of Chicago Press, c1996
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780226217208
Description
Popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, the "a cappella" music known as "isicathamiya" has become celebrated as one of South Africa's most vibrant and distinct performance traditions. This text provides an interpretation of isicathamiya performance practice and its relation to the culture and consciousness of the Zulu migrant labourers who largely compose its choirs. In songs and dances, the performers oppose the class and racial oppression that reduces them to "labour units." At the same time, Erlmann argues, the performers rework dominant images to symbolically reconstruct their "home," an imagined world of Zulu rural tradition and identity. By contrasting the live performance of isicathamiya to its reproduction in mass media, recordings and international concerts, Erlmann addresses issues in performance studies and anthropology, and looks to the future of isicathamiya live performance in the new South Africa.
Table of Contents
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 Mambazo Postscript, 1994 Notes A Select Discography of Isicathamiya Glossary References Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226217215
Description
Popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, the "a cappella" music known as "isicathamiya" has become celebrated as one of South Africa's most vibrant and distinct performance traditions. This text provides an interpretation of isicathamiya performance practice and its relation to the culture and consciousness of the Zulu migrant labourers who largely compose its choirs. In songs and dances, the performers oppose the class and racial oppression that reduces them to "labour units." At the same time, Erlmann argues, the performers rework dominant images to symbolically reconstruct their "home," an imagined world of Zulu rural tradition and identity. By contrasting the live performance of isicathamiya to its reproduction in mass media, recordings and international concerts, Erlmann addresses issues in performance studies and anthropology, and looks to the future of isicathamiya live performance in the new South Africa.
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