Description |
xxi, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Series |
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology |
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Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
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Contents |
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 |
Summary |
"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. The author presents a moving collection of material that for the first time reveals the expressive genius of these tenacious but disenfranchised people".--BOOKJACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index |
Notes |
In English, with some Sotho |
Subject |
Songs, Sotho -- History and criticism.
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Sotho (African people) -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Lesotho -- History and criticism.
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Sotho poetry -- History and criticism.
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LC no. |
94009093 |
ISBN |
0226115747 |
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0226115739 |
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